Testing Flock
I'm testing Flock, a Firefox-based browser that has a lot of integrated features, including an integrated blogging interface. Let's see if it works...
Blogged with Flock
Since you're reading this, it obviously worked.
Well... it's not really a full featured blogging client, but if you just need to make a quick post, Flock works just fine.
The other features are pretty nice (and very well integrated). They are:
Photo Publishing - you can drag/drop pics from your computer or a website to your Flickr or Photobucket account through a nifty little (hidable) interface at the top of the window. It allows multiple accounts and you can drag/drop from the interface directly into almost anywhere on the web that allows HTML in comment fields, like Facebook, Friendster, hi5, LiveJournal, Myspace, Orkut, Xanga and more. Flock can also notify you when friends update their Flickr/PBucket account, and you can view their public pictures in the same interface.
RSS feed reader - it reminds me a bit of the Sage extension in Firefox - Simple but effective. It also allows one-click article saving.
Enhanced Search Box - Kinda hard to describe, so I'll quote Flock's site. "You'll see answers before you're done typing and get results from all of the most popular search engines, your favorite web pages and your browser history." The instant drop-down a little disconcerting the first couple of times, but it is pretty useful once you get used to it.
Bookmarks - Integrates normal bookmarking and social bookmarking. Click the Favorites button once to bookmark a page. Click and hold to categorize and tag. If you're using a service like del.icio.us or shadows, Flock will automatically store and share your favorites online. Another neat feature is the ability to make bookmark "collections", and then use a dropdown on the bookmarks toolbar to choose the collection to be displayed there - handy for task oriented surfing (bill-pay, research).
All in all, it's a solid, extensible browser that's optimized for the whole social networking thing. Hell, the only thing it's missing on that front is an integrated IM client, and I'd be willing to be that *somebody* is working on that...
Blogged with Flock
Since you're reading this, it obviously worked.
Well... it's not really a full featured blogging client, but if you just need to make a quick post, Flock works just fine.
The other features are pretty nice (and very well integrated). They are:
Photo Publishing - you can drag/drop pics from your computer or a website to your Flickr or Photobucket account through a nifty little (hidable) interface at the top of the window. It allows multiple accounts and you can drag/drop from the interface directly into almost anywhere on the web that allows HTML in comment fields, like Facebook, Friendster, hi5, LiveJournal, Myspace, Orkut, Xanga and more. Flock can also notify you when friends update their Flickr/PBucket account, and you can view their public pictures in the same interface.
RSS feed reader - it reminds me a bit of the Sage extension in Firefox - Simple but effective. It also allows one-click article saving.
Enhanced Search Box - Kinda hard to describe, so I'll quote Flock's site. "You'll see answers before you're done typing and get results from all of the most popular search engines, your favorite web pages and your browser history." The instant drop-down a little disconcerting the first couple of times, but it is pretty useful once you get used to it.
Bookmarks - Integrates normal bookmarking and social bookmarking. Click the Favorites button once to bookmark a page. Click and hold to categorize and tag. If you're using a service like del.icio.us or shadows, Flock will automatically store and share your favorites online. Another neat feature is the ability to make bookmark "collections", and then use a dropdown on the bookmarks toolbar to choose the collection to be displayed there - handy for task oriented surfing (bill-pay, research).
All in all, it's a solid, extensible browser that's optimized for the whole social networking thing. Hell, the only thing it's missing on that front is an integrated IM client, and I'd be willing to be that *somebody* is working on that...