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October 05, 2005
Launchpad at Web 2.0: Flock - Bart Decrem
Posted by Stowe Boyd
"The social browser."
The web is not a library, but interactions bewteen people.
Open source, on top of Mozilla. Few weeks away from public release of alpha.
Initial focus: social browsing. Favorites/history & blogging.
Treats 'favoriting' as the same as 'subscribing' to a feed.
'Blogging topbar' -- a region above the browser page. Incorporates a blog editor, that interoperates with various blog solutions. Also a Flickr topbar, where you can just drag Flickr photos into the blog editor.
Very intriguing: basically a browser for bloggers, which may be all of us, relatively soon. A fuller review once I get access to the promised Alpha in the next week or so.
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1. Manish on October 6, 2005 06:37 AM writes...
For WYSIWYG blogging, also check out RocketPost: http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost
It's the most advanced blog editor out right now (disclaimer, I designed it).
Permalink to Comment2. BillSaysThis on October 8, 2005 02:22 AM writes...
Manish, Flock is a lot more than a blogging tool. Plus its free and the source will be available (MPL I think).
Permalink to Comment3. Manish on October 21, 2005 03:07 AM writes...
Yup-- it's the blogging portion I was referring to, and that's not nearly as powerful as a dedicated blog editor. The rest I really like, it innovates.
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