Flock: The Blogger's Browser

There have been a whole gaggle of new browsers nipping at Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari. Barely a year after Mozilla's Firefox began creeping into the mainstream, some of its developer broke off on a new browser project, Flock.

This is the blogger's browser because it make the rapid integration of blog posts and phot integration extremely easy.

From BusinessWeek article, Flock, the New Browser on the Block:

For one, it makes blogging a snap by eliminating the need to do arcane coding in order to post, change fonts or add photos. Right click the mouse on a Web page, and a blogging wizard comes up that automatically creates links, citations, and quotes that are ready to insert into a blog. A horizontal bar on the browser also can load photos from the photo-sharing site Flickr, so they can be simply dragged and dropped into the blog post.

Moreover, Flock makes it easy to create online bookmarks for Web sites. Visit a Web site and click a "+" button on one of the browser's toolbars, and that site is saved to a personalized list on the social bookmarks Web site http://del.icio.us./.

Those bookmarks can be tagged with useful descriptions and shared with others. Flock also lets people create watchlists of people whose bookmarks they like and form groups with people who link to particular tags. Flock also keeps a history of every Web page a user visits, so they can be found easily later.

There are very easy-to-follow video tutorials to expose you to the magic behind the breezy interface.

The really ingenious part is that Flock connects directly to your Flickraccount to allow both a swift channel to upload new photos, and an easyinterface to include those photos in your blog posts. Flock syncs upwith most of the mainline blog services, TypePad, Blogger and WordPress.

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