Why Flock? My thoughts about and reasons for using Flock over other browsers…

Why Flock?»  by Eric Herberholz»      - Updated March 9, 2008 3:51 PM  US/Pacific @ my Word Press Blog|Xanga Blog|Blogger Blog|lilurl|jaiku’d|twitter’d ] - [edit|internal|old] My Favorites @ del.icio.us/eric.k.herberholz/flock   My thoughts about, and reasons for, using Flock over other browsers
Q: Why Flock? A: To me, there of several features of Flock that are extremely appealing…  Blog Post Editor User Guide RSS News Feeds Reader User Guide Media Stream - access/update your favorite photos at Flickr or Photobucket, and at YouTube User Guide My World User Guide Integration with social bookmarking systems (e.g. de.licio.us, ma.gnolia) User Guide Web Clipboard “Use the Web Clipboard for Instant Saving and Sharing“ Even with loading Firefox with extensions, you do not get the integration that Flock offers. For example, to blog from Firefox you can use the ScribeFire extension. And to save webclips you can you can use another extension. And in this scenerio you will not be able to combine the use of a blog extension with a web clip extension, say, to copy from one to the other. But with Flock’s built-in Blog editor and Flock’s built-in Web Clipboard tool, you can copy from the web clips to the blog editor with ease. Built-in spell checker Plus, the same great features that Firefox has: Extensible - extensions (add-ons) can be added that extend the built-in capabilities. Most Firefox extensions work with Flock. For those that complain and won’t let you install them, they can be adapted.  Note: My Favorite Add-ons (a.k.a. Extensions) See end of this page: lilurl.org/ma693kj for the list of extensions that I use in Flock. Customizable, Personalize - buttons on toolbars can be re-arranged, toolbars using View»Toolbars»Customize…” For example. User Guide Search Engine customization User Guide And many other features… I have given a lot of feedback, and encourage others to do so also, simply use: Help»Give Feedback, or click on the blue fly icon (Send Feedback) to the right of the URL/location field. BTW, I wrote Instructions on how to download and start using Flock… Kind Regards, -erich (EricHerberholz.GooglePages.com)	References: About Flock, in Blognation, Wikipedia, CrunchBase Flock on the Web Main Features of Flock: People Share Media Minibar Search & Favorite Feed Reader Blog Editor Personalize Add-Ons “Flock is a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online. Receive updates when friends have new photos, videos or blog posts. Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to popular photo sites. Drag and drop photos and videos from Flock’s Media Minibar to email, comment fields, blogs, etc. Collect your favorite photos, videos, and text from the web and blog them instantly.” Release Notes www.flock.com www.planetflock.org - an aggregation of blogs from individuals who may or may not be part of Flock Inc. Adapt a Firefox extension to Flock: developer.flock.com/wiki/Firefox_to_Flock www.flock.com/community www.flock.com/download extensions.flock.com/addons www.flock.com/faq www.flock.com/support User Guide Topics Exploring the web The Location Bar News Feeds Searching the Web Downloading Files My World http://www.flock.com/investor-info, “What is Flock? … Flock is a consumer Internet business which has developed a free, next generation web browser. The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. But web browsers - the application that fundamentally enables online experiences and services across ones’ connected life - have not kept pace. Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser. When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.“
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Q: Want to use blogs at work, for work?!

A: Check out http://billives.typepad.com/portals_and_km/

Bill Ives spoke at a KM Leads bi-weekly virtual meeting at HP (on January 25, 2006), about “What blogs and wikis bring to business and knowledge management“, and he really inspired me to pursue blogs as a solution at work.

I am very excited about what I’ve done with my blog so far. I’m using it as my knowledge base (per Bill’s suggestion) and as a method of sharing my knowledge with my teammates.

Somewhere in Texas there’s a village missing an Idiot

I saw this ^ bumper sticker on the way to work one morning and couldn’t stop laughing!

It recalled to me that I enjoy toostupidtobepresident.com and that I enjoy “Hail to the Chief” (a Bush impersonator) at Jeff Foxworthy’s roast on Comedy Central.

Noam Chomsky on Manufacturing Consent

Manufacture of consent, deceiving the stupid masses with “necessary illusions,” covert operations that the media and Congress pretend not to see until it all becomes too obvious to be suppressed. We then shift to the phase of damage control to ensure that public attention is diverted to overzealous patriots or to the personality defects of leaderrs.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-NBHyNbWXQ&feature=related

Blogged with Flock

Nothing profound - Google rules, Mi¢ro$haft drools…

> “The fundamental Google model is to try to change all the rules of the
> software world,” says David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard
> Business School. … a lot of the value that Microsoft provides today
> is potentially obsolete.” ny times

…This was obvious to me for a while, and I have been telling people a similar thing: applications are becoming web-based, and traditional-desktop applications will either need to become web-based or perish.

My Favorite Books are…

• The Farseer Trilogy Series, by Robin Hobb, e.g. Assassin’s Apprentice
• The Tawny Man Series, by Robin Hobb
• The Coldfire Trilogy, by C. S. Friedman
• The Faded Sun Trilogy, by C. J. Cherryh
• Runelords Series, by David Farland
• Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy, By Tad Williams
• The Gor Series, by John Norman
• Dune Series, by Frank Herbert
• A Fire Beyond the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

Blogged with Flock

Flock 0.9 is better than iPhone, or at least as revolutionary…

Q: Why Flock?

A: To me, there of several features that are extremely appealing…

• Blog Post Editor - (see User Guide)
• RSS News Feeds Reader, built-in (see User Guide)
• Media Stream - access/update your favorite photos at Flickr or Photobucket, and at YouTube.
• Multi-search-site integration
• My World - (see User Guide)
• Extensible - extensions can be added that extend the built-in capabilities - note: My Favorite Add-ons (a.k.a. Extensions)
• Customizable - buttons can be re-arranged, using View»Toolbars»Customize…”, for example.
• Collections of Favorites - for versions 0.7.x. As of version 0.9, integration with social bookmarking systems (e.g. de.licio.us)
• Built-in spell checker
• And many other features.

I have given a lot of feedback, and encourage others to do so also, simply use: Help»Give Feedback, or click on the blue fly icon (Send Feedback) to the right of the URL/location field.BTW, I wrote Instructions on how to download and start using Flock…Kind Regards,-erich - http://ericherberholz.googlepages.com/

References:

• July 10, 2007: Version 0.9 Released - Release Notes.
• http://www.flock.com
• http://www.flock.com/community
• http://www.flock.com/download/
• http://extensions.flock.com/addons
• http://www.flock.com/faq
• http://www.flock.com/support
  • User Guide Topics
  • • Exploring the web
    • The Location Bar
    • News Feeds
    • Searching the Web
    • Downloading Files
    • My World

Blogged with Flock

Flock 0.9 delivers a much improved Blog Post editor

I’ve only had a day to work with it, but Flock’s Blog Post is much improved.I have been told that, to customize the toolbar, you right-click anywhere on the toolbar, and select “Customize”. Not intuitive, but now that I know, that’s good.And with Blogplus, things are much better (e.g. lower blog pop-in and pop-out).

Blogged with Flock

Flock Rocks! IE Drools

• Flock Rocks!
• Always has, always will.
• Innovative is the way of Flock.
• Stodgy IE never has been innovative, and is very unsafe.
• Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 days in 2006 (reference).
• Credit Mozilla for the source of Flock, but Firefox is too big to be as innovative as Flock.
• Flock on!