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Title: "Flock - first impressions"
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First impressions:

• del.icio.us synch works - you can view your bookmarks in Flock and synch both ways
• flickr - there's a "top-bar" where you can enter a username and see his/her Flickr photos
• blogging - it has a blog editor, but it did not work for me

These are the basic integration features. There is also a "shelf" - a window that says "drop stuff here", but it did not seem to work at this point.

Conclusion: it has nice looks, but the "feel" is of a very early beta (as they say on the site) - some things do not work or feel weird. What I did like though were its "guess-work" features that makes some things easier:

• typing "captsolo" in the URL field was enough to make it go to this blog
• when typing in search field, it shows a number of choices from recent history and bookmarks

These last two features are nothing exceptional, but still very satisfying. But all in all it still has to mature.

I'd like to see a deeper integration of Flickr, ability to mark bookmarks private (and avoid synching them to the outside) and to view your contacts' Flickr images in the "top-bar" - and for it all to work well.