October 21, 2005
Flock!
Example: 1. Highlight a passage on a web page that you would like to blog about. 2. Right-click that selection and choose Blog This. 3. The blog editor opens with that selection already inserted. Not only that, the selection is properly formatted as a Blockquote and appropriate citation is included.
I heard about Flock a couple months back and since then I’ve eagerly anticipated the earliest release. I’ve always wanted a browser that integrated the social aspects of websites, blogs, and link sharing. Flock has released their developer preview and it’s got some support for these nifty things. Already included are integration with certain blogs (like WordPress) and Flickr. So far, while it’s extremely easy to set up access to the supported web services, there are a few quirks (as can be expected with any .5 developer release) that make it a little frustrating at this early stage. Editing text for your blog entry (which I’m of course doing right now) presents some problems with line breaks and certain shortcuts (Ctrl+V) not doing what they should. That said, I haven’t had a problem I couldn’t get around (in my limited evaluation of this browser). Of course, if this post goes into the Internet Black Hole…
