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Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser?
escay writes "Cardinal, the Beta 1 version of Firefox-based browser Flock, was released Tuesday with many polished features. Some of the features include drag-and-drop photo uploading for Flickr and Photobucket, an in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool, and shared favorites/bookmarks. In step with Web 2.0 philosophy, Flock provides a rich user-centric experience, making it easier to bring information to the user and vice versa. It is available for Linux/Mac/Windows, and you can download it here. (And for those of you trying to get Flash working in Firefox on an AMD64 Linux machine, try this and be pleasantly surprised!)"
Does it support all of Firefox's extensions?
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
Honestly, the only reason Flash on AMD64 is so amazing to most people is because most of the other distributions are based on "pure AMD64" code and don't include 32-bit packages and compatibility code by default. And why I can understand why they'd want to do that – considerably cleaner system, etc. – I personally don't like it at all. I've been porting a distribution to AMD64 myself, and the first thing I decided was that packages like Firefox and MPlayer would keep using the 32-bit versions, because honestly, I'd rather a convenient system than a pure 64-bit one.
:-)
Speaking of Flock, that reminds me – have to update to the latest version sometime, because it would be kind of stupid if the first distribution to feature Flock as a standard package (mine) wasn't up to date
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
Are fads that are going to disappear inside of 12 months?
If it aggregated all my subscribed RSS feeds on a single page, with full text, I'd probably switch, as those photo and blogging tools look great.
It nearly does, but falls short. I can view full-text articles when viewing a single feed, but there's no way to view whole articles when looking at the complete list of subscribed feeds.
Why have only Safari's developers figured this one out?
From TFA:
If you are a power user (hint: if you use del.icio.us or a news reader or if you visit Digg, that probably means you) and if you have decorated your browser with, oh, say, 20 extensions or more, Flock may not be for you. We like these services as much as you do, and we share the basic values of transparency and control that are an essential component of the participatory web. We are trying to bring these services to mere mortals.
It's all good, but why not just create a Firefox distribution package with the best of Firefox + Extensions, and just write extensions for the things that aren't yet available from others?
I know this sounds too simplistic. That's why I like the Colbert Report. It doesn't matter if I'm right (because I'm sure the experts will show me many ways in which my take isn't feasible, isn't the way development "actually" happens, etc.); but my way seems like it would be easier.