or an ode to Melvin (warning inside joke)
OK, so I’m testing Flock right now. It’s a web browser, based on Mozilla, that includes built in support for web services like Del.icio.us and Flickr and has a blog editor built in. It’s still in beta and it has some rough edges but man is it cool.
Flock does away with traditional bookmarks all together and instead pulls your bookmarks from Del.icio.us, with the “Favorites Manager” you can edit your bookmarks as if you were on your Del.icio.us account page. You can organize your bookmarks into collections and view them by collection or tag.
I haven’t even played with Flock’s Flickr integration yet and I know it’s gonna be killer. You can load your Flickr images in a handy thingy called Flickr top bar, a little shelf under the navigation buttons. You can then drag and drop your photos into a blog post. The blog editor is still a little dicey but just to have a one stop shop for browsing the web and publishing blog entries is all I need, combine browsing with Flickr, Del.icio.us and posting to my blog and I’m in heaven. oh and a littel feature called the “shelf” is liek a visible clip board, where you drag items of interest from the web, to blog about later. yeehaw.
Flock also rocks the rss support. not too shabby, once they beef it up and make it a double pain menu/content situation, I’d gladly switch from BlogLines.
There like twelve-zillion other features I haven’t mentioned, check out Flock’s 13 things you can do with Flock. This is a great new (dare I say) web 2.0 app. it combines a well thought out, extensible desktop app with intelligent web services, it even has an api so that developers can extend the functionality for other web services. The gauntlet has been thrown down, Flock is still a bit weak in the knees but man are these guys good.
i’m not sure which one i like more, the fact that the title post is an ode to me or the fact that google ads is smart enough to show and add to buy music from flock of seagulls.