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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."
I am with ya bro.
I play WOW, and we have a mage that likes to browse myspace during raids...or even better, click on the wrong chat window..
So we see some raid messages that were not meant for the raid.
OMG !
Personally, I think that too much web social interaction is a bad thing. People are forgetting how to interact face to face.
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
It's worked in Mac OS for a pretty long time.
-mkb
A really long time. Mac has always been ahead of the game with drag and drop, it really got rolling with system 7.5 (1994 - damn, ~15 years ago now). Around that time you could start dragging almost anything anywhere and have it do something (possibly) useful. The nice thing about mac clipboard data is that it is abstracted a lot so you basically have a cluster of data/metadata such as URL, image, text, etc. Controls receive the drop event and can deal with the clipboard data in an abstract way (like create a file of the image in its native format, play an audio clip, whatever).
Konqueror doesn't try to do everything, it just embeds the appropriate KPart. And those do one thing really well.