All things Flock – 0.5 has landed!
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A public release of the Flock social web browser is imminent. It’s coming. Are you hyped? Are you even following the breadcrumb trail back to the Flock base? We covered Flock in early September: Flock – Social Formation Browsing. A fitting title for the browser – built atop the solid Mozilla engine – being vigorously coded by Flockr’s running on nothing but blue. I was fortunate enough to try the 0.2 release. Since then, a 0.5 release is migrating across the net. [Get it? Flock / birds. Migrating / private beta testers getting an early taste. Mmm tastes like chicken.]
The latest 0.5 release has a few minor changes from the previous version:
- Breadcrumbs – Flocks internal social bookmarking service – has since been replaced with a tightly integrated favorites manager utilizing del.icio.us.
- The overall browser interface has been touched up and appears to be a near finished product. Users will notice that whle browsing bookmarked pages, the ‘Star’ icon next to the address field will signal whether or not the page has been ‘Starred’ [read: bookmarked].
- An integrated RSS viewer. Similar to Safari, Flock inserts an RSS icon in the address bar if the currently viewed site offers syndicated feeds. Raw feeds receive a clean / intuitive stylesheet for easier reading.
Not to spoil the fun, re-read our previous post concerning Flock and sit tight for the public beta release.
I know this is a stupid question, but does anybody have the setup to Flock, and is willing to send it to me? If you signed a contract, or there are 2 men in black suits with curly wires going into their ears, please don’t, I do not want you to get in to trouble, but I would just really like to try Flock out.
Rumor has it that if all goes well, a public beta of Flock will make its debut this Friday.
This Friday?! Awesome! This is the news I need to hear. Keep us updated!
Is it gonna be different from the 0.5 release?
Another question, The Top bar, the one with the minimize, close and maximize, is that part of flock, or is that a visual style?
Dylan: That’s a visual style.
Are you using a msstyle, or WindowBlinds? If msstyle, would you mind sending it to me?
Msstyle. Grab a copy of the theme on DeviantArt.
Yes!
Ok, Where will Flock be available? On their site or is it going to be sent out to email…
I think it’s safe to assume that a public beta release would be hosted on the Flock homepage.
Flock social web browser version 0.5 has landed
A public release of the Flock social web browser is imminent. It’s coming. Are you hyped? Are you even following the breadcrumb trail back to the Flock base? We covered Flock in early September: Flock – Social Formation Browsing….
If the “bookmarks” functionality uses del.icio.us, will there be an option for users who *don’t* want to have their bookmarks shared with the rest of the internet?
@Joel
http://www.flock.com/fiveways/togetstarted/with/favorites/
Quick heads-up: the article’s links to screenshots are broken if referer sending is disabled in one’s browser.
[...] Además de lo anterior incluye un lector de RSS aparentemente mejor que el de Firefox, y un editor de entradas para blogs con funcionalidades WYSIWYG. Por último parece que no habrá que esperar mucho porque el rumor dice que si no hay problemas deberÃÂÂa estar disponible la versión 0.5 al público el viernes, como comenta uno de los betatester de esta aplicación. [...]
So, is a Friday release still looking good?
Also, What blogging services does flock support?
Wordpress is supported. It’s on the top of the priority list. They’re working on implementing category’s into the blog editor. I’ve read of users successfully posted to Blogger / Blogspot, LiveJournal, and Drupal.
But Wordpress is verry high quality, not for the average blogger. To pay for a PHP and MySQL able hosting service would cost some dough. I know their doing the invites, but how many people will they give invites to? Im not downing on Flock, but why wouldnt they start with the most common blogging systems?
[...] // !All things Flock – 0.5 has landed! [...]
be aware, it is a horrible non intuitive skin on a firefox. yeah sure, it lets you blog to blogspot. and it lets you add bookmarks to delicious. sowhat? it also makes it self your default browser. tired of getting screwd by firefox, perhaps you should try another browser
question is, should that browser be a mozilla firefox clone? probably not!
Goffer: The browser does not set itself as your system default. It prompts you asking if you want to set the browser as the default. It does the same thing Firefox or IE would do on an initial run. Maybe try reading through menu items?