Last night I download a new web browser Flock that makes it easy to subscribe to one's various social sites and services.
I first heard about Flock a year ago and thought wow that's a nice idea. After playing with it for a short time I decided that it was just that a nice idea.
Well folks this time it is a nice tool that does a good job of connecting your online life. The one spot were it seems to fall short is that all of the connections are managed locally on the computer. What would be the bees knees and make flock truly a social browser would be to have your profile travel with you as you open flock on the various computers you use.
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Yep.... It's iGoogle and I rely on it now. I am wary of any aggregator or portal that forces me to use what >itI
Maybe I'm missing the boat on Flock? I read that it uses Firefox's extension capabilities for flexibility, so why should I change from Firefox?
The browser is to now, what the OS was to the late nineties, which is something that used to be cool, but now is just tech. :) I remember being psyched about Windows95, but by the time Windows98 came out, people just wanted the damn thing to work so that they could get out to the internet.
Posted by Jason | November 14, 2007 2:41 PM
Posted on November 14, 2007 14:41
Flock is definitely my shiny object at this point and your counter with iGoogle is good enough that I will need to look at it again.
What I like most at this point (merely 20 hours into this version with at least 5 of it being asleep) is that I did not need to do anything to get Flock working with my social bookmarking, networking , or photoing sites except to remember my username and password. Upon supplying my credentials I have media feeds pulled in, bookmarks automatically made in delicious, the browser configured to post to my blogging sites and a list of my friends easily contactable from a side menu.
This is not the same experience that I had with Firefox where I needed to go and find those extensions and update them as the browser updates.
Well I am going to make it my default browser for now and see what I think a few weeks from now.
Posted by James | November 14, 2007 4:48 PM
Posted on November 14, 2007 16:48