Another ground-breaking IT development coming from the general vicinity of Stanford University -- and it's being built in a garage, just like HP was.
Here comes a new open source browser called Flock. It's built on the Mozilla Gecko HTML rendering engine, like Firefox. However, Flock's intended user market isn't just anybody -- it's designed for bloggers.

According to BusinessWeek Online:

"Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online."

Expected to be launched in two weeks, Flock will make it easier for Bloggers to edit, reference and post content to their blogs; allow web surfers to instantly tag sites at del.icio.us; and most importantly, Flock will be easy to customize to enhance the browsing experience of the average Jane. Early testers have apparently given the browser the thumbs up, but it's too early to tell if the initial buzz will be translated to wide adoption.
Flock is "designed from the ground up as a 'social browser' for what its inventors call the 'two-way' Web," says Steve Hamm in his blog at BusinessWeek.com.