A social media web browser - Flock
Here at NixonMcInnes we love all things social media so I couldn’t help but blog when I came across a new release of an uber cool web browser. It’s called ‘Flock’, is based on Firefox and has lots of wonderfully cool social media plugins that integrate seamlessly into the browser. After all, it does call itself ‘the social web browser’.
Why is it a social web browser? Does this mean it talks to you more than your friends do? No, of course not. That would be silly (cool, but silly). So what does it do thats different from Firefox. Well, the key bit for me is its integration with the various social web tools we all use. For example, it hooks right into Twitter, Facebook and and Youtube and has customised sidebars that allow you to see all your updates, actions, friends, status changes etc without having to go to the website.
It also allows you to upload photos into your social media accounts directly through the browser. Want to add photos to your facebook or Flickr app? Just click the upload photos icon, select the service you want to drop into and drag and drop. Lovely.
And a further note to cement its coolness, its allows you to blog directly from within the Flock browser - working with most blogging services like Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, MovableType, Typepad and WordPress. Nice.
Have a look for yourself, and let me know if you discover any other neat tricks it can do!
Matt wrote this on 19.02.08 –
It's filed in the Blogging, Interesting, Social media, Social networks, User experience box
On February 19th, 2008 at 5:22 pm, Evan Hamilton responded:
Thanks for the kind words about Flock! We have a beta version of our 1.1 coming out in a few short days, so keep your eyes peeled for even more social browser goodness!
Flock on,
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
On February 19th, 2008 at 9:47 pm, Will McInnes responded:
Yeah man, flock on :) LOL. We need one of those for Nixon McInnes…. ‘Like Nizomk on, dude’…
On February 20th, 2008 at 10:08 pm, Paul Fabretti responded:
Awesome stuff. The last major overhaul was a massive step-up in functionality.
On March 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am, Pat Mays responded:
id love to see a mobile version of flock for my n95e :)