Flock anyone?

Alright so at Macworld I got a chance to talk with the Flock guys,
not having used the browser before I was fairly interested in it after
seeing a piece on it on Mahalo Daily.
Despite these two events taking place I decided to drag my feet on
downloading the browser, but one lonely late night I took the plunge.

So here’s some things you should know ahead of time about Flock.

• It’s built completely off of Firefox
• It has it’s own set of add-ons
• It gives you quick access to your social networks
• It allows you to manage more things that you may have

Alright so what’s the big deal about Flock? Well there’s a couple of things, they give you a “myworld” page that allows you to manage all of your RSS feeds in one place a lot like Netvibes does, and it’s always open whenever you start the browser.

Flock allows you to be connected in a way that previously had been impossible.

The Image above is an example of your people, with a click of the mouse you can have access to all of your friends on any number of websites, in this case I’m viewing my friends accounts on Youtube.

But be warned this is not for the faint of mind, it’s very easy to get lost into Flock, and it’s even easier to kill an hour and a half just looking through youtube videos on your top media bar.

Switching out what the media bar is showing is super simple you just click on the Media Stream button and you have access to a wide variety of different things.

One of the best elements about Flock (besides the built in blog editor which I’m using to make this post).

(if you’re curious all of these pictures have been placed here from the web clipboard which allows me to drag my pics from the Media bar to the square and then just put the pics into this blog)
 

Is by far the picture uploader which allows you to choose a number of different places to put your photos, like your Facebook, Photobucket, or Flickr, just to name a few, and the interface is as easy as the Flickr uploader if not easier.

So who should use Flock? Well that’s a difficult thing to say, since it’s built off of Firefox it is just as stable, and it has a huge selection of things for you to do, even if all that you do is blog and cruise Youtube there’s a ton of things for you to explore. Flock’s interface can be a little daunting at first like but once you sit down with it, and start to do some work you find that it’s an essential part of your life, I look forward to seeing where the Flock Development Team takes this browser in the following months, especially with the release of the Firefox betas. Anyways I’ve chosen to end this post with a break down of the Flock Toolbar.
 

From Left to Right: My World, My People, My Media Bar, Open Feeds, Open Favorites (bookmarks), Open Accounts Manager, Open Web Clipboard, Open Blog Editor, Open Picture Uploader

Blogged with Flock

Tags: Flock, Firefox, Youtube, Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, Linking into your social networks, Mahalo Daily