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Flock Delivers On Promises Post 1.0
Linux.com has a quick look back at the social web browser Flock, now that it has passed the 1.0 hurdle. The main complaint seems to be sensory overload, but there are definitely some interesting tidbits in there. "Version 1.1 really shines in its enhancements to the MyWorld page, including the Friend Activity Feed. Once you've logged into all your social networking services, you can drag and drop messages from one friend to another. For example, if Sally makes a good restaurant suggestion via Twitter, I can drag that message to John's Twitter icon in my sidebar and he'll receive a link to view Sally's message. If a particularly interesting picture comes across my Flickr feed, I can drag it over to a contact on Facebook, and he'll receive a notification to view the image."
" For example, if Sally makes a good restaurant suggestion via Twitter, I can drag that message to John's Twitter icon in my sidebar and he'll receive a link to view Sally's message. If a particularly interesting picture comes across my Flickr feed, I can drag it over to a contact on Facebook, and he'll receive a notification to view the image"
I just threw up a little in my mouth...
Vrapid: dump stuff on the tubes at the speed of light!
I like Flock, largely because of Flickr integration and the Interestingness media bar, that's pretty addictive.
The main thing that keeps me from using Flock or Firefox full-time is the in-page search. Safari just blows everything away on that, and I don't think it would be terribly hard to add to FF/Flock. Add a total match count, and highlight all by default, and I'm there.
Flock has come quite a way in the last year though, I'll have to give them that, it's not quite as "slap you in the face with every social network ever" as I seem to recall it being, and it's relatively easy to switch from one network view to the next.
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While I have no interest in the named services, it's not hard to see that all that is a pretty slick achievement. I like. :)
... that an open source project released something with a non-zero major release (yeah, Enlightement, I'm talking about you!).
Look, I suppose this is good news for Linux users and all; but in other OSes (*cough" OS X *cough*) most everything is draggable by default. If someone, during a chat, sends me a link to a great restaurant - I can drag it over to another person with whom I'm chatting. I can drag images off web pages onto my desktop, into my email, or into a chat window. So is drag-and-drop really the "killer feature" of Flock, or is there something more substantial?
I dunno, I've never been happy with applications that try to do everything (e.g. Nautilus, Konqueror, Internet Explorer), rather than doing one thing really well; so maybe it's just my biases coming through.
#DeleteChrome
Flock. Like a flock of sheeple. I don't want to be a sheep headed for the slaughter. I want the be the Shepard telling the flock where to go, and selectively sheering and slaughtering sheep at my convenience.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Hey baby, mind if I Flock you?
I got Flocked by like 20 people last night.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
While we're still a long way off, the way we interact with computers, especially in the area of communications, is changing drastically. Nerds may not be the people who are going to use all the revolutionary social networking/communication apps that will be coming out, but we will be the ones writing them, designing them, creating them. And I bet you, a lot of nerds will be using them too.
Flock's own extension library has dozens of plugins to choose from, and most resemble standard Firefox plugin fare. Again, I tried about 10, and they worked just fine. The only one that really raised my ire was Me.dium's privacy policy, the company watches too -- and collects, saves, and aggregates your data). I willingly installed the plugin so my beef isn't with its purpose, just with its method. When I installed the plugin, it also installed itself on my Firefox browser as well -- without asking -- and defaulted to on. Privacy lovers, this is not the extension for you.
I'd say that's pretty damn rude of them.
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"With Flock 1.1, real life friends are now obsolete!"
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I think a link to the actual Flock website would have been appropiate in the summary: http://flock.com/ This is not my kind of toy, but it will be interesting so see if this will take of in the mainstream.
"internet exploder"...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
"People who think they can't be manipulated are among the simplest to trick."
Could you provide some examples? These people annoy me and I'd like to have some fun.
Also, I don't really believe you. While they may be in denial, I think that their obstinance and paranoia makes them a little harder to trick than most people.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
I used flock for about 2 weeks. It is a nice concept but the browser has serious issues with remembering the pages and sites that you 'allow". EVERY SINGLE TIME I visited Facebook I had to tell the stupid browser to remember the password. Someone needs to fix that. Until then, i consider it worthless.
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And I'm currently using it now. I have complaints about it, just like everyone else here.
First and foremost, is the fact that it is a very resource hungry application. Just when Firefox (which is what it's supposedly based on) is getting its footprint down to minimal amounts, Flock starts hitting the streets and uses up as much of my system as anything else I run.
Second, the sidebar seems clumsy to me. I don't know, maybe if I were to use it for 2 weeks or so, I would get over this, but it just doesn't feel logical to me.
Third, and final, why the bloody hell does it automagically add "Favorites" (and call them favorites instead of bookmarks!) when you install it! This is one of the biggest problems I have with winbloz machines as well. I don't go to youtube, so why the hell do I suddenly have a bookmark for it!?
All in all, it's a very nice idea, but, good (insert deity here), why did they make it so system heavy?!
"Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup." ~ohcrapitssteve
Aww, I actually like Flock and recently started using it as my primary browser, and it makes me a little sad to see so many negative comments. I don't care that it makes me sound idiotic and anti-social, I like being able to access my facebook friends, email, photos, and feeds with very few clicks and pretty seamless integration. I mean, I'm not a techy/computer person so maybe I'm screwing a lot of stuff up...but it seems okay to me. *shrug*
~Kea
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Enjoy, I think it may help you, per the question(s) you asked there.
The real problem was that most of the features are pretty much worthless: twitter? facebook? myspace? flickr streams?
I just don't use that crap. I blog. That's it. And you pay a price in performance for all those extra features--it just doesn't run very fast. It's not unbearably slow, just not anything like snappy.
It wasn't worth the price to me--I dumped it like a bad habit.