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Flock Delivers On Promises Post 1.0

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-listed-under-the-fad-catagory dept.

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."

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  1. Ugh by AdamTrace · · Score: 4, Funny

    " 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...

    1. Re:Ugh by UberHoser · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

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    2. Re:Ugh by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I think that too much web social interaction is a bad thing. People are forgetting how to interact face to face.


      Face-to-face? Is that like when you put your Myspace pic on a page next to someone else's?
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    3. Re:Ugh by misleb · · Score: 3, Funny

      play WOW, and we have a mage that likes to browse myspace during raids ...

      People are forgetting how to interact face to face.


      Irony?
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    4. Re:Ugh by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      Personally, I think that too much web social interaction is a bad thing. People are forgetting how to interact face to face. Whatever, dude. I met this chick on myspace a couple months back, and ever since then she's been sending me all these great jokes and virus warnings and cool stuff like that. Just the other day, I noticed she had put me as one of her top 8 friends. I'm pretty sure that means we're going steady. If everything keeps going like this, I might even link to her blog on my blog. After that, we're practically married anyway, so it's only a matter of time before she agrees to cyber with me.

  2. Re:All there but one feature, for me by Shikaku · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

  3. The REAL news here is... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... 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.

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    1. Re:The REAL news here is... by FredFredrickson · · Score: 5, Funny

      I especially liked how intuitive it was to eject a CD from the drive. Just Drag the CD Icon over the trash.. and..

      Wait, that didn't make sense...

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  4. Re:All there but one feature, for me by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like flock because, used intelligently, it can accurately secure files and allow multiple processes to run without having to worry about file corruption or process write violations.

    What?

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  5. new slang? by SoupGuru · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey baby, mind if I Flock you?
    I got Flocked by like 20 people last night.

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    1. Re:new slang? by barzok · · Score: 3, Funny

      Snotty Flocked me twice last night...it was wonderful.

  6. Re:Friendship by yomegaman · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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