Thoughts from Candy with a “why?”


Flock, the “Social Browser”… I’m a BIG fan!
March 28, 2008, 1:25 am
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I wanted to share the features of my favorite and VERY USER-focused social media browser with you. I have used it for 2 years or so, and they keep making so many AWESOME improvements to the firefox-based browser! I demo’d this at Community Camp earlier this year and there were still a lot of folks that may have HEARD of it but never used it.

I can’t wait until a mobile version of this paradigm comes out.

Anyway, here is an overview of Flock Features:

  • “My World”
  • “People” sidebar
  • Media Bar
  • Feeds sidebar
  • Search Engine options
  • Email Inbox
  • Favorites
  • Accounts and Services sidebar
  • Web Clipboard
  • “Blog This” feature with builtin remote editor
  • Photo uploader

… all
built right in to the browser! It’s a ME platform instead of a web platform. This will be an image-heavy post that I plan to share as a web demo.

“My World”


“People” sidebar


Media Bar

mediabar_new.png

and Media detection

media_detection.png


Feeds sidebar

options_feeds.png


Search Engine options
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and Search engine detection
search_detection.png


Email Inbox

Favorites

(which can also be set to post to del.icio.us)

Accounts and Services sidebar


Web Clipboard
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(for
dragging and dropping bits of content from pages– instead of favoriting whole page)

“Blog This”

right_click_menu.png

feature with builtin remote editor
blogging.png

Photo uploader
photo_uploader.png

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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Hey Candy,

Thanks for the awesome post about Flock, you rock! I’m glad we’re still making you happy, and I think you’ll be very excited to see some of the things we have coming this year. :)

Could we use your quote about Flock being a “ME platform” on our homepage (attributed to your name or anonymous, whichever you’d like)? That’s a better line than we could ever come up with! Let me know!

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Comment by Evan Hamilton

Nicely done pictorial review of Flock’s features.

I have been using Flock as my primary browser for about 2 years, and it keeps getting better and better.

-erich
EricHerberholz.GooglePages.com

Comment by erich13

[...] however it has so many more features designed for our new social, digital world. There is a nice demo of Flock by Candy With A Why, so I won’t recreate the [...]

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