October 25, 2007
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New Browser
Flock
Flock is described as a social browser. I’m not sure how applicable that description is because access to social communication sites is only part of what Flock does.
In just a few minutes after starting the program, I was able to link it to some of my Weblog sites: LiveJournal (Am0), Blogger (Am’s rAmbles), and Xanga (WordJames and Am0) but not Tripod (WordJames) or WordPress (I’m not quite sure what it’s called). Plus I was able to access some RSS feeds. Now I’m editing this entry on Flock, even though I prefer w.blogger for making LiveJournal entries because of its superior HTML capabilities.
Until discovering Flock, I was using a variety of browsers and other tools to access or maintain my Weblogs: Firefox, Opera, w.blogger, Am0.us, WordJames.name, Xanga and Tripod. I would like to be able to access all of them with a single interface. I’ve fallen short of that goal with Flock, but it is a step in the right direction.
Flock is based on the Mozilla Gecko machine, just like Firefox, SeaMonkey and Mozilla. When I signed on to Flock for the first time, it asked me if I wanted it for my default browser. I declined. Now I’m more tempted to make it the default. I’m certainly going to give it a workout over the next few days.Blogged with Flock