Flock Bloggers Browser
By Astrit Kita • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: Blogging TipsHave you ever heard about Flock? Not the flick-flock or flack-fluck, but Flock, a web browser, just like Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Safari, Netscape etc etc. Before I get to write about WHY Flock is a bloggers browser let me first try to explain more things about Flock (even tho I just downloaded it).
The Flock browser is built on the Mozilla FireFox open-source browser, which gives me the credibility to a trusted and semantically correct browser. With the quality of FireFox browser in mind and the faster browsing experience which Flock has preserved they have also added some GREAT social media features and make the bloggers blogging live much, and I mean MUCH easier.
The Flock Social Web Browser has built in some great social media functions such as, facebook integration, flickr, twitter and YouTube, all functions which make possible you keep in touch with your friends without really the need to go to the site and check which of your friends is online, share pictures with your friends by dragging and dropping photos, videos, feeds and text from the Media minibar and web pages, interact instantly by jumping on their profile, sending message.
The Flock browser has a well organized features which appear as sidebar, it doesn’t disturb your navigation or even slows it down, yet it places all your needed things right on hand.
But what I like more about Flock is the possibility to setup a blog account, on all the next named blogging platforms
- Blogger
- Blogsome
- LiveJournal
- Typepad
- WordPress.com
- Xanga
- Self-Hosted Blog
Under self hosted blog it includes WordPress platform as well as other type of platforms. Once you have setup your account, you can directly write and publish a post from within the browser, no matter what you are surfing and without the need to go to your blog and login. Once you finish writing your blog while watching a video on YouTube you can click the publish button and you get your blog post published, on which category I have no clue, I believe under the default category and still have to figure out if this can be setup to pick the category or not, will check on later on their numerous extensions (aka addons).
I have to admit I am liking this browser, even tho I am used to firefox I think i will pass to Flock or flick a flock, oh well, after all it is based on Mozilla FireFox, so it has the fast browsing, security and semantically correctly displaying xHTML sites just as FireFox it does, just that it has some GREAT features for bloggers that can make things much easier.
Hope you did enjoyed this blogging tip, and if you like you can go and flick Flock.
