The Cynic Says……

I’ve decided to take the time to try out  Flock, which is a browser based on Firefox but adds a few new features that aren’t currently available in Firefox (though can probably be added via extensions). Basically it’s a version of Firefox tuned towards the more community aspects of the web in general. It integrates with your weblog (works fine with Wordpress, seeing as how I’m typing this post in the blog editor in Flock), del.icio.us social bookmarking service and flickr photo sharing service. Basically if you see a page you like, you can bookmark it to del.icio.us, which allows all your friends and other people who are members @ del.icio.us to see your bookmarks… you can also upload photos to flickr and make blog posts all without actually having to go to the given sites, login and post. It even has a blog editor right in the browser itself that you can open in another tab, all without actually having to visit your blog. Pretty neat stuff so far. I’ll have to play with it some more and report back on how well it actually works in practice. The only thing I don’t like is that it’s limited to flickr so uploading pics for me will still require logging into my gallery and uploading them manually instead of just dragging them over the flickr icon in the browser. I have plenty of pics in my gallery so I can’t be arsed to bother signing up with Flickr just to be able to use that feature. Either way, the browser looks pretty promising and it’s only at version 0.5.11!