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."

Comments

Re:All there but one feature, for me

[Shikaku]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5239 Like this?

The REAL news here is...

[93 Escort Wagon]

... 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.

Re:Friendship

[yomegaman]

Cool, I thought I was just a big loser, but it turns out I was an ahead-of-my-time visionary!