Flock and Me :)

A couple nights ago i was just browsing the web. I came across some old favorite links in my Firefox and decided to just go through them...just for the fun of it to see what i had been bookmarking. I must have come across some forum (probably Ubuntu, cos it was something to do with Linux....i don't remember my damn self.) and i saw something about a social networking browser. Then i saw that it was based on Firefox3....which was all i needed to see really. A few clicks later i had downloaded it and was on my way to setting it up, which didnt even take long.

Flock is the name of the browser. Its not my favorite, to be completely honest, but i'm using it as much as possible to get used to it. Thus far i can actually say i recommend it to anyone who is a member on a number of social networking sites. Why? I'll try and explain it.

The browser has a feature called OpenID which allows you to simultaneously connect to a number of social networking sites. This allows you quick and easy access to updates, notifications, etc without having to even open the site. So, while your on whatever site you're viewing, just pop open the side bar, change your Facebook status, maybe check your requests (friend, group, application, etc) and you messages, and even check your friends current status messages. Then check what your friends on YouTube have done recently, then onto MySpace, and so on and so forth. All in a sidebar.

The so called Flockbar is currently my favorite feature on the browser. With buttons to pop open:-

• the people sidebar,
• media bar (pops up at the top of the window to show videos on your YouTube account. either what you added, favorite or anything recently added or favorite. and more),
  
• RSS feeds (in the sidebar),
  
• mail (opens a new tab),
  
• favorites (sidebar),
  
• photo uploader (new window),
  
• blog editor (new window),
  
• accounts and services sidebar,
• and a very useful feature... the web clipboard sidebar.

More info on Flock available at the homepage.

Another thing. Its a cross platform browser. So if you're on XP, Vista, OS X or any Linux distro, you can use it.

Blogged with the Flock Browser