Ah, now there is a new browser on the block. Could this be the Ralph Nader in the browser race? Not necessarily…

Web browsers don’t look much different than they did a decade ago, when Netscape Communications’s initial stock offering catapulted software for navigating the Web into the public eye. You click on a site, look around, watch or listen to something, click somewhere else — all by your lonesome self. Now, an upstart called Flock aims to change all that.

On Oct. 5, the Palo Alto-based startup takes the wraps off what it’s calling a “social browser.” Unlike plain-vanilla browsers such as Microsoft’s (MSFT ) Internet Explorer, Flock’s browser is built specifically for a new, emerging generation of Web users, one that isn’t satisfied passively browsing media online. [Read the rest]

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