My Home on the Web

Flock is a browser that is integrated with various services like del.icio.us, flickr and a number of blogging applications like Blogger, WordPress and others. 

The concept is quite simple: surf the net as you usually do, but with a browser that supports blogging, tagging, news reading and photo uploads without having to navigate to the service and log in to your account each time. 

Some of the things you can do:

Blog Editor (PC: ctrl+b / Mac: cmd+b)

This opens the Blog Post window that will automatically post to your blog based on the username/password details you supply.  You can even edit or delete previous blog entries, add tags and categories and edit the source HTML.

This editor window also has a drag-and-drop area for text and images that you can use as a temporary strage bin as you are writing your article. 

You can also save your posts as a draft, so you can complete them later, create web snipets (selections of text that you might use over and over) and you can even publish to multiple blogs if you like.

News Feeds (PC: shift+ctrl+n / Mac: shift+cmd+n)

This opens your news feeds in a sidebar (with a set of pre-populated feeds) witht he ability to categorize by folder, or by Saved Articles.  This is a neat feature, allowing you to select individual articles and save them for later viewing or sharing.

Conclusion

I have used Flock before (about a year ago), but it needed some polish and stability.  It appears to have both at this point and makes for a great companion to users who interact with, and contribute to, the web.

Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Alistair
Filed under: Blog