First Impressions: Flock
Saturday / 22 October 05
In the past year I have grown extremely fed up with the lack of online storage or synchronisation of personal data such as my bookmarks, feeds, and addressbook. As such, about a year ago I wondered where we would be with the integration of the social bookmarking service del.icio.us into our browsers. Now a bunch of regular folks have taken up the idea to build a social browser and partly address my concern — their first developer preview has been made available. Flock.
Flock: A Social Browser
They describe their intentions as:
“We started Flock to build tools that empower people and smooth out some of the more hairy parts of living and working online. As it is, we live and breathe this stuff everyday and wanted better tools to do the things that we love doing online.”
Having read about 13 things you can do and the fact that it tries to address my complaints about online bookmark integration, I decided to give it a spin. Right from the start you notice a very, very sexy theme. Everything else seems rather familiar. Only after investigation you’ll find some very interesting features, such as the favorites system, blogging tools supporting common blogging software and a very conveniently extended search box. Flock is based on Mozilla Firefox, meaning it’s only a matter of time before all your extensions are compatible.
All in all, Flock is looking to become very interesting. If you ‘live and breath’ online, you’ll definitely want to give it a shot and keep an eye on it.
Related Links
- Flock, official website
- Screenshots: 01, Flickr
PS: Yes, I don’t write a lot. I’ve been busy. Consider this a drive-by-entry.
1Robert Nyman posted:
25 October 05, 10:01:46 AM
Good to see you writing again!
"Flock is based on Mozilla Firefox"
I just wonder if this will mean that Flock will always lag behind the Firefox release schedule when it comes to fixes and updates...