This is my first post using the Flock Developer Preview.
Here you can find a list of the interesting features that are available in this preview
Let me tell you my first thoughts about some of its cool features:
1. Favorites – it has built in integration with del.icio.us
Interesting if you are a bookmark geek
2. Blogs – integrated blog posting to WordPress, Typepad and Blogger. You can do some pretty cool things:
Search flickr while editing your post, get a photo and add by drag and drop in your post. I searched flickr about Meebo and found a couple of photos. Here are the meebo folks:
(btw they have nice Web 2.0. stylish application -check them out)
Save your post as a draft.
Adding links from the “shelf” – see below about the shelf
You can have multiple blog accounts
Q1: Where is the preview button?
Q2: Where is the full rich edit editor?
Q3: The blog editor has a lot’s of bugs, or missing functionality – I expected a Rich Text Editor – but found just a text editor with a couple of basic features.Perhaps this has something to do with the blog engine limitations? Someone?
3. You can search throughout your history.
4. One-click privacy cleaner – using Clear Private Data …
5. The cool shelf feature – you can drag links to a special place where tey are saved – something like favorites. Then when editing your blog you can get those links and insert them in your post again by dragging them.
Q1: Why not when double clicking a link from the shelf – open it in a new browser?
6. It has some feed features – I have not examined them yet.
It installs the Macromedia Flash Plugin without any problem, so I think most of the other plugins will work too. Later will try to install Developer Toolbar and will tell you what happened.
More to come when I have time…
Update (10 min later):
I had to log to wordpress and reformat the text because it looked awfully. It seems the problem is coming from the ul and li tags.
One thought about Flock – it’s a Firefox with a couple of XUL aplicatuions.
