Using Flock

Well i am now using Flock to try out some of its features. What I have found is both encouraging and depressing. First the positive.

Flock is the coolest thing I have used since I first used Firebird (early version of firefox). It has features that I wish had been part of Firefox from the beginning. To start off it has almost all of the positive attributes of Firefox. The only problems are small amounts of extensions and no themes. This is a problem that won't affect the browser for very long. Flock says on its website that it is bringing many of the Firefox extensions over to Flock. Forcast Fox and others are already available. They are also setting up a feature that will convert the extensions on the fly. No mention of the themes could be found, but since there is a theme tab on the website I assume they will have some in the near future. The browser only came out this month.

The best feature of the browser is the attempt that it makes to work better with the web 2.0 initiative. For a definition look to my last post. They do this in a myriad of ways. One tool i especially like is the bloggin tool. It allows you to write posts for most major blogs, including blogger and livejournal. This is useful because you don't have to log onto the blogger interface and can write the blog before you even connect to the internet (great for dialup users).

There is also a feature that allows the user to organize and upload photos.  You can upload to Flickr and Photobucket.  This is a good feature though not one that i would use that much.

Another imporant feature is the news feature.  It is a built in way of better organizing rss feeds.  I have not use this that much so I will have to examine it furthur.

More information about Flock will be posted on the next post.

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