Flock – Social formation browsing
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Social this, tags that… Web browsing this, why not weblog that?
The internet has transformed into a giant melting pot of webapps / services with social network integration. It’s all about sharing isn’t it? Tags, bookmarks, photostreams, weblogs… I know all about sharing! I often find myself bouncing between dozens of tabs. One tab for del.icio.us, another for Flickr, a third for Wordpress. You get the picture. Why can’t everything be seamless? We need synergy! We need Flock.
Unfortunately, I have no first hand experience with the Flock browser. Currently in private beta. However, I have gathered a plethora of information from various sources. I’ve also received the following screen shots of the Flock web interface. The true power of Flock is within the browser itself.
Flock uses a del.ico.us-like bookmarking system complete with tags called Breadcrumbs. I actually prefer the name breadcrumbs over bookmarks. Kind of reminds me of that Hansel & Gretal story of leaving breadcrumbs behind to find your way. Breadcrumbs to find your favorite sites. Eh? See the connection? Judging by the web interface it looks like Flock users will be able to access their crumbs from any internet browser.
The actual feature that I think most users will be wow‘d by is the integrated blogging. Roland Tanglao’s quick overview sums it up nicely:
I was blown away! Drag and drop blogging – drag text from a blog post and it automatically creates a cite tag with a link to the original post and the quoted text is indented using a blockquote tag. Drag and drop Flickr photos (I do this painfully every day for Urban Vancouver e.g. check out today’s East 12th and Commercial photo). And Chris teased me with some more future features like having del.icio.us as your bookmarks (goodbye to useless local bookmarks).
Who uses local bookmarks these days anyways? Well enough of that. I’ll stop acting like I know what I’m talking about. Considering I don’t have a copy of Flock to play around with, I’ll continue waiting patiently for the official release sometime this month. Check the related links below for more info on the Flock browser for the masses:
// Flock – The Flock Has Landed
// Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)!
// Flock and WordPress.com, nifty tools
// Flock – Social Browsing is Cool
// Join the Flock – Flickr Photostream
[...] Flock is going to be a social browser that will take full advantage of Web 2.0. It will integrate with blogs, such as Wordpress, and social sites like Del.icio.us and Flickr. The best information I could find about Flock was on UNEASYsilence. The internet has transformed into a giant melting pot of webapps / services with social network integration. It’s all about sharing isn’t it? Tags, bookmarks, photostreams, weblogs… I know all about sharing! I often find myself bouncing between dozens of tabs. One tab for del.icio.us, another for Flickr, a third for Wordpress. You get the picture. Why can’t everything be seamless? We need synergy! We need Flock. [...]
Flocking
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