Flock Off

I’m posting this from within Flock - a new Open Source browser for a number of platforms, including my beloved Apple Mac.

It’s currently in beta, but I’m already very impressed with what it does.

My favourite features are:

• (Almost) seamless integration with a number of blogging clients, including Blogger of course. I’m putting this post up from within Flock, and it has more features than Blogger’s own editor! (Except it doesn’t publish just yet…)
• Seamless integration with del.icio.us so that all your bookmarks are organised the way they should be, with tagging and descriptions. I hate conventional bookmarks and have been using del.icio.us for some time. It makes total sense. I won’t go into why. Use it, or be a frustrated relic.
• Seamless integration with Flickr. Now I’m not completely sold on Flickr just yet, possibly because I haven’t been able to integrate it into my life and possibly because I’m not interested in sharing the pictures I have. That might change with the features in Flock.

There are a bunch of other cool things in Flock. My early impressions is that it’s slow, but does what I want a browser to do. It seems vaguely familiar. Almost like Firefox, but prettier, neater, cooler, but slower.

I will keep you posted!

(Note, this didn’t publish from Flock, so I’m posting it the normal way. whoops…still beta!)
(Further note, it smells like Firefox because it’s based on the Mozilla codebase)
(Note on Monday 6th at 11:21 - I am now able to post blog entries directly from Flock!)