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Post details: Flock - first impressions

2005-10-21

07:38:27, Categories: Semantic Web, Web development, Blogs

Flock - first impressions

Title: "Flock - first impressions"
Originally uploaded by captsolo

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.

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Comment from: Daniel O'Connor [Visitor] · http://clockwerx.blogspot.com/

Personally, I'd love to be able to lay hands on all of the kick @ss features as regular extensions to firefox as opposed to having to get the Flock browser.

It's a pity it's unstable. Good stuff is in there, but not quite ready for users like my self.

Permalink 2005-10-21 @ 14:53

Comment from: Benja [Visitor]

Typing 'captsolo' in the URI field works in Firefox, too (it uses Google's I Feel Lucky), and I bet they just didn't change that code, so that's really not exceptional :-)

That the search field searches the recent history (and favorites) was the one thing I really liked about Flock, OTOH.

The blog editor worked for me, sort of, except that it wouldn't allow me to format something as <code>. I tried entering the HTML, but it ate that :)

Permalink 2005-10-23 @ 01:42

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