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Flock | the Social Web Browser

Flock | the Social Web Browser

Well, I’m starting to be impressed.  First of all, it’s friendly to set up.  It gives you prompts for various things, like setting up your Facebook, Gmail, Digg, and other accounts.  It bills itself as a social browser and it’s not lying.

I noticed a blurb about Flock being chosen as the number 6 best product of the year by PC World.  I have that issue, which is July of 2008.  This is pretty good for a product that is free.

To blog, you just set up your account info, and whenever you find anything you want to right about, you right click and select Blog This.  It doesn’t get much easier than that.

It also stimulated me to log into the various accounts that I don’t normally use, like Flickr and Twitter.

(I just had flock crash.  Doesn’t bode well.)  However, it has been mentioned that it might be a little buggy.  Also I didn’t get the latest and greatest, I downloaded the default 1.2.  According to the Flock Blog, there is a beta release using FireFox 3, which could be good.  I’m still not really that happy with some things that FireFox 3 is doing, it seems to lose it’s mind and become static frequently, but that’s not really got anything to do with Flock.  If I decide to keep using Flock, I’ll grab the 2.0 beta.

There should be a little bit better documentation on how to set up a self hosted blog on the front page.  It also recognized my blog platform at TypePad, which, of course, it’s not.  Guess I’ll see how it posts, I won’t be correcting any errors during the review process.

Twitter support and RSS are excellent.  It also likes Yahoo! and Gmail.  Digg integration is cool, very cool, even though I consider Digg a bag of fail.  I don’t see political commentary from “random users” being that useful, and I also don’t like how articles are weighted.

But I digress.  The integration and the editor are both nice, even if I consider the editor to be stripped down a bit.

So let’s post this and see if it blows up!