Where bloggers Flock

January 8, 2006

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I’m creating this test post using the new open source Flock browser. I was listening to an offshoot podcast of Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tec h, titled Inside the Net. Episode 6 featured Chris Messina, one of Flock’s founders.

Flock seems to be the browser targeted towards online guys and gals who enjoy online publishing – blogs, photo uploading, and creating RSS favorites and bookmarks via del.icio.us.

So I downloaded the bugger and decided to give it a try. There’s not much I see from face value that could attribute to the death of Firefox. In fact, Flock seems to be nothing more than a Firefox mod.

Right now, I’m just having fun with the blogging tool – I was able to upload my WP blog settings into Flock and I can easily post stuff using a Blog This function similar to what we see in Blogspot. I am able to add tags to my post as well as Categories (which are miraculously synched from my categories page in WordPress).

The top bar of the blogging tool allows me to search for a user from Flickr, view his or her photos and link them to my post. In this case, I’ve chosen my photos and used one of them above. Coolness!

In the next few weeks, devs and third party dudes will be uploading more and more plugins. I’ve barely had time to experiement with this thing that I might have overlooked a WP plugin for uploading pictures.

Hope you guys could download it and give it a shot.

technorati tags: flock

Comments

6 responses to “Where bloggers Flock”

January 8, 2006

carlo

It’s a nice idea but the browser crashes on me too often. 🙁
January 8, 2006

Jayvee

really? people get mixed feedback. the browser never crashed on me before but i did experience WP blogging problems – other people never did.

well, shady. but its stil beta so i hope things can only get better.
January 9, 2006

Jason

Hmmm… I heard about it from the same podcast and downloaded it but forgot all about it. I’ll give it a spin this week.

Hey Jayvs, how about using 37 signals software to share task lists and bookmarks and other stuff for our m|ph work?

http://www.37signals.com/
January 9, 2006

Jayvee

who! let me take a look. im currently exploring using the ATOM based Writely and Protopage. have you heard of those?
January 9, 2006

Jason

Yup. WriteBoard is similar to Writely. Backpack and Ta-da list have gotten good reviews…
January 11, 2006

Jayvee

experienced some errors posting because flock couldnt find the server – apparently it was a bug. my entry was posted 10 times since i kept on trying to repost the same thing over and over.