What is Flock?
According to their website:
Flock is a consumer Internet business which has developed a free, next generation web browser. The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. But web browsers - the application that fundamentally enables online experiences and services across ones’ connected life - have not kept pace.
Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.
When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.
Meaning that it’s a cool browser that allows you to access information about your friends online from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr ALL AT ONCE! It even allows you to upload new posts to your blog without even opening a WordPress window. Media across all platforms can easily be added to a blog post, simply by right clicking (ctrl click, cause I’m a Mac guy) on it.
Flock allows you to easily sort through any users media files with ease and does not require you view such media with any particular social network. All data is pulled and displayed in the browsers built-in media player. It even appears that Flock uploads all of the imported data in real time, without having to hit reload. Ideal for twittering! Flock even acts as a feed reader and makes subscribing to blogs and tagging websites pretty simple.
Ultimately, Flock is a fun browser that incorporates the top social networking sites that I am always logged into anyhow, but streamlines them all so that you can easily jump from one to the other, or combine the data of them all at once. I’m not sure why Flock comes with Yahoo! search pre-installed. I would have much rather seen them go with the Google option. I also wish that I could access my MySpace account, but one miracle at a time.
I’ll keep you posted, but so far, I like what Flock is doing. Take a look for yourself and download the free version of Flock here.
What do you think? Does Flock make your workflow faster and easier? What other features would you like to see? What would take your browsing experience to the next level?
Happy Turkey Day!
UPDATE: After a little poking around, I found it was really easy to switch from a Yahoo! search field to a Google powered mega-browser search. Nice!
UPDATE:Wow! The Flickr uploader app inside Flock is awesome!
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Tags: flock, browser, social media all in one, jon ray, useful browser
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