A social web browser
18 April 08 | link to this
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There’s a new browser on the loose. It’s called Flock (better than “herd” I guess) and despite its disconcerting name is actually pretty interesting.
Flock bills itself as the “social web browser.” It is natively integrated with a considerable number of social media, including Technorati, Ma.gnolia, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, among many others. It also allows for communications with individuals right in its interface. It allows the user to set up a “media stream” across the top of the viewport, as well as a sidebar containing the user’s collection of connections and all the usual browser stuff.
Bloggers are going to love this: Flock is integrated with nearly all the major blogging platforms and allows users to write entries right in the browser interface. This means quick blogging without having to either launch the blog’s backend in a separate tab, or switch back and forth between a desktop blogging application.
Flock runs on Mozilla so it is über stable and, so far as I have seen, renders CSS layouts impeccably.
I highly recommend checking it out.