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Use Flock, Get Free Hosted Wordpress

I literally just stumbled on this on accident. I was going to Robert Scoble’s hosted WP site and typed it in slightly wrong. As it happened, I was using Flock and I was recognized as such. And I was gifted a free hosted Wordpress.com site. VERY COOL. Although you actually don’t have to have Flock to get it. If you’re using Firefox and have the User Agent Switcher Extension, just create a new UA with the following User Agent string:

Flock/0.4 Firefox/1.0+

Then go to WordPress.com and enjoy!

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  1. ch0de's Blog | October 30th, 2005 at 12:22 pm

    Free Wordpress.com Invite Using Only Mozilla Firefox!

    Firefox extension: http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/
    Link for registration page: http://wordpress.com/flock/
    First, download and install the User Agent Switcher Extension. Then go Tools - User Agent Switcher - Options - Options. In the…

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  2. BlogDog | November 14th, 2005 at 3:03 pm

    Want to be the next Scoble? If you go to Wordpress.com using Flock you get awarded a free WordPress.com blog. Cool, eh? Thanks toAndrew Ferguson for the tip. Here’s mine. No, I have no idea what I’m going to do with it yet. technorati tags: flock, wordpress.com, free blog

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  3. Readers noticing wordpress.com redirecting some Scoble traffic to their homepage » Make You Go Hmm | April 24th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    [...] If you use Flock (or can emulate a Flock user-agent), you can signup for wordpress.com => http://www.andrewferguson.net/2005/10/30/use-flock-get-free-hosted-wordpress/ [...]

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