Free and Open Source Tool #13: Flock
March 9th, 2008 | Published in Open Source | 2 Comments
I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. I’m still on internet clients, believe it or not, and still have some to go.
Today, I’m talking about Flock. Flock is the “social browser.” For bookmarking, it uses your del.icio.us account. It can bring in your photos (and the photos of your contacts) from flickr. It can keep track of your Twitter friends, etc. You can also use it as a blog editor, which I am going to start trying out.
It’s amazingly good. I’d tried it a couple of years ago, and it was buggy, crashed, and seemed like something that was a great idea, but not realized. Now, it’s realized. It’s really quite nice. It’s based on Mozilla Firefox, and apparently the developers of Flock contribute a fair bit back to the Firefox codebase.
Update: I’ve been using it now as my default browser for the last day or so, and it is really growing on me.
Tags:browser flock mozilla socialnetworks
March 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am (#)
[...] . and because faithful people are more effective when connected freely, I’ve decided to take Michelle Murrain’s suggestion and install Flock, a social networking-empowered web browser, based on [...]
March 16th, 2008 at 7:46 am (#)
Just wanted to say: thanks. These posts on open source applications are so helpful. I’ve never even heard of most of them. A true gift!