{"id":1830,"date":"2016-12-20T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:58:44","slug":"flock-launches-worlds-first-chat-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/flock-launches-worlds-first-chat-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock launches world\u2019s first chat OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flock, a team messenger for businesses, on Tuesday launched world\u2019s first chat operating system \u201cFlockOS\u201d which allows developers to build customised apps, bots and integrations on Flock.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The developers can either use the customised apps within their organisations or publish it on Flock\u2019s App Store, making them available for all Flock users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWith FlockOS, we have thrown open our platform to the global developer community. Our User Interface (UI) is a canvas for developers, allowing them to create truly intuitive apps and integrations which seamlessly blend with the core product,\u201d Bhavin Turakhia, CEO, Flock, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dChat will soon become the next operating system, probably within the next three to five years. FlockOS empowers teams to create custom experiences within Flock that is designed for their unique team needs,\u201d Turakhia added.<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cFlockOS\u201d, developers can build apps that provide a tightly integrated experience by using widgets. These include the attachment widget, sidebar widget and modal widget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dFlockOS\u201d provides setup slash commands, providing an additional option for users to interact with the app and can configure a Bot to send directed messages to users, carry on conversations and completing tasks from within Flock.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flock, a team messenger for businesses, on Tuesday launched world\u2019s first chat operating system \u201cFlockOS\u201d which allows developers to build customised apps, bots and integrations on Flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}