Flock Developer Preview Available

I try not to use this blog to talk about things other than work. However, since I feel this has a tangental relationship to the type of work I do, I thought I’d post it here. I’m very excited about the new browser on the block called Flock.

Here are a couple reasons why, if you’re like me, I guarantee you’ll be impressed where Flock is headed:

  • It’s built on the Mozilla/Firefox codebase. That means no worries about having another browser to test for when developing for the web.
  • If you have a del.icio.us account, Flock will connect to it. Meaning no more importing or losing all your precious bookmarks on a system failure.
  • You can blog directly from the browser instead of having to work within your blog app framework. It isn’t too special right now, but once the plethora of blogging extensions hit, look out.
  • Direct access to Flickr. See above.

If you like Firefox, you’ll love Flock. It’s all of the goodness of Firefox with a twist of social application goodness.

Go on, download it already!

The Discussion

6 Comments

  • Re: Flock’s WYSIWYG blogging, also check out RocketPost: http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost

    It’s the most advanced blog editor out right now (I designed it).

  • I’ve downloaded it and am hoping to have the chance to try it out thoroughly. It looks pretty good so far.

  • Thanks for the link. I’ll have to test it out now. I’m always looking for an improvement over Blogger’s standard blog editing.

  • I too have downloaded flock, but my browser choices are getting deep:

    Safari
    Firefox
    Camino
    Flock
    Opera
    IE for Mac

    Listed in that order. I wish any one of those other than safari would use the OSX built in dictionary browser plug in. Coolest feature ever in Safari.

    -Santoro

  • Oh no, not another Gecko browser! You see one, you’ve seen them all, IMO. And I still think Opera beats them all.

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