It’s week 2 of EVO and our OWP wiki page lists a great set of tasks that are mainly focused around the open nature of blog, public feeds. We have been involved in aggregating the different blogs of participants to our bloglines account to quickly monitor updates and new entires.
This week we have also looked at Bloglines vs. Netivbes and there have been various comments on user-friendliness which I will list later but the main part of the week has been getting familiar with
Flock is Firefox-based Web browser which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing all in one.
Flock includes a built-in RSS reader meaning that we don’t need to sundscibe to feeds from out bloglines account we can do that from Flock. This web browser is I think what was missing – it’s really taken on board dome of the web 2.0 features and makes navigation easier.
As the advert goes “Various Web sites and software programs already provide this functionality, but Flock is one of the first to integrate it into a Web browser.” I think that is quite revolutionary, and forward looking!
The best feature of all is that direct from the browser you can “Create a blog post” by pulling down the menu or clicking on the button located in the main navigation bar. The button launches a sophisticated blogging tool that integrates on a drag-and-drop level with Flickr, a popular online photo management and sharing service recently acquired by Yahoo.
Flock integrates with a number of popular blogging services, including WordPress, Six Apart and Blogger, according to Decrem’s own blog.
The aim of Flock is to be a dashboard-browser allowing instant collaborating,
blogging, sharing photos, enjoying what others are doing all from one easy location.
It, of course, is based on tags too and full integrates with del.icio.us
Here’s a good Business week article on it
Here are my comparative notes:
- easy aggregator
- interface a little bland
- split window viewing
- can blog with it
- new folder and
categories easily managed - not much personalisation of “look”
- name editing restricted
- very good 🙂
- completely customizable
- great for mixed approach
- integrates YG!
- + email + News feeds
- blogroll capacity with great viewing
- clutterfree to 100% cluttered depending on how you set it up
- easy editing
- colour coding possible
- drag and drop the windows
- extend and crop the windows
- very nice feel 🙂 🙂
- all of above
- + add blog entry straight from Browser
- + drag and drop Flickr photos into blog entry
- + nice pull down menus
- excellent 🙂 🙂 🙂
Well, birds of a feather FLOCK together was the best way to describe the philosophy behind this one!
Blogged with Flock