A few months ago, my local newspaper tech section feautred the web browser Flock. Obviously the author had very little experience with “Web 2.0″–Flickr, del.icio.us, blogging, etcetera. So he gave it a mediocre review, only reviewing it as a browser and not the new product that it really was. So I gave it a try, and it wasn’t for me.
Fast forward to today, after browsing through some pictures on Flickr, I saw Flock’s official pics. Some crazy stuff, if you haven’t seen it. It brought back the fond memories of Flock, and then reminded me of how far I had come in terms of new ways of using the web. So I gave it another download. In general, Flock is looking great. Very great. As God (aka Steven Paul Jobs) would put it: “insanely great”. It still has quirks, but they usually are related to the fact that it is based on Mozilla. (For some reason Mozilla has really long initial launch times on my machine, but who knows?) The new photos and news thing is great. And since now I have a great little blog, I can use Flock for that too. I am glad to see it supports multiple sites now (del.icio.us and Shadows.com for bookmarks, and Photobucket and Flickr for pictures, and a slew of blogging sites). I have tried everything but the blogging tool since I have become very comfortable in blogging from within WordPress’ Dashboard. The UI is getting better than before, and so is the overall stability–I remember having a few crashes back in the day. Flock is just getting better overall, and I love it.
Now this doesn’t mean that it will replace Safari as my main browser, Steve has let his opinion be known as to which browser is best and I listen. But I wouldn’t be suprised to see Flock being used a lot as I do my Flickr and del.icio.us. It’s a pretty cool browser, with some pretty cool guys working on it. If you haven’t seen their Flickr account yet, you can find it here. You can also get a free download of the browser here
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