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Flock 0.9 takes off tomorrow
Flock, the Mozilla based web browser still under development in private beta, is getting a nice overhaul with its 0.9 release tomorrow. If you're not familiar with Flock, it was released in 2005 with much anticipation and hype as the social network browser. Flock was created to integrate various social networks into one browser platform so you could conceivably post items to your blog, update your Facebook page, upload to Flickr and all the while stream YouTube videos.
It didn't live up to its hype for various reasons and some would argue, Firefox accomplishes all these social network tasks with their never ending inventory of useful add-ons.
However, the blogosphere's consensus is Flock 0.9 is a bird of a different feather (no more bird references, we swear) and is quite positive about Flock's new makeover. Here are some nifty features:
My World: Flock tells you when your friends have new photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.
Account Detection: Informs you when there are available feeds and media streams on a page and when your account log-in can be configured with Flock.
Video Support: Find YouTube and Truveo videos with the Media Minibar.
Online Favorites: Easily post your favorites to del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.
Drag'n'Drop: Drag and drop photos and images from the Web Clipboard to webmail, comments, blogs, etc.
BlogEditor: Added Blogger and LiveJournal support. Also, now you can preview what your blog post will look like before pushing 'Publish.' Tags are now enabled and have included Technorati, Livejournal and Blogger-specific tags.
Photo Uploader: Edit options for a specific photo or the whole batch; easily set photo to commonly selected sizes
Flock has these media apps covered:
Blogging: Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, Wordpress.com, Typepad
Media: Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube
Bookmarks: del.icio.us, ma.gnolia
We realize you can't have everything, but where's Twitter? New guy on the block, Pownce? Maybe we can expect to see Flock support these additions in the 1.0 release sometime this fall.
Flock runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Thanks FF!
It didn't live up to its hype for various reasons and some would argue, Firefox accomplishes all these social network tasks with their never ending inventory of useful add-ons.
However, the blogosphere's consensus is Flock 0.9 is a bird of a different feather (no more bird references, we swear) and is quite positive about Flock's new makeover. Here are some nifty features:
My World: Flock tells you when your friends have new photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.
Account Detection: Informs you when there are available feeds and media streams on a page and when your account log-in can be configured with Flock.
Video Support: Find YouTube and Truveo videos with the Media Minibar.
Online Favorites: Easily post your favorites to del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.
Drag'n'Drop: Drag and drop photos and images from the Web Clipboard to webmail, comments, blogs, etc.
BlogEditor: Added Blogger and LiveJournal support. Also, now you can preview what your blog post will look like before pushing 'Publish.' Tags are now enabled and have included Technorati, Livejournal and Blogger-specific tags.
Photo Uploader: Edit options for a specific photo or the whole batch; easily set photo to commonly selected sizes
Flock has these media apps covered:
Blogging: Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, Wordpress.com, Typepad
Media: Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube
Bookmarks: del.icio.us, ma.gnolia
We realize you can't have everything, but where's Twitter? New guy on the block, Pownce? Maybe we can expect to see Flock support these additions in the 1.0 release sometime this fall.
Flock runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Thanks FF!
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Jared C. said 7:43PM on 7-09-2007
I've been in the "private" beta since right after the browsers release and it better be a major improvement or it is a complete waste of time. I don't see this taking off. It was a nice idea, but it only fits a small market.
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Will Pate said 9:17PM on 7-09-2007
Flock isn't in "private" beta at all. What we did for 0.9 was a round of testing with a select group of people from our community, so I think that's where the confusion came from.
Jared, I think you'll find that 0.9 is a big improvement from 0.7. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts when you give it a try. Feel fee to email me at will at flock dot com :)
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Sam said 3:11AM on 7-10-2007
are there firefox plugins that do what flock does? id like it if there were
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