A thorougly nerdy Holy Saturday

What a nerdy Holy Saturday this is turning out to be! No surprises for those that know us ;-)  Hjölli introduced me to a new web browser a couple of weeks ago - Flock - the "social web browser"! As cliche as that sounds it has turned out to be a revelation - basically Flock is a spin-off from Firefox but it integrates into its sidebar a whole bunch of socionetwork sites - facebook for general social networking, flickr/picassa etc for photos, eblogger etc for blogs, delicious and magnolia for social bookmarking etc etc - and makes info from these sites easily accessible and reviewable during the process of web browsing.  I wouldn´t have thought I would be that interested given my pretty limited use of these tools but in fact the browser has reactivated my use of facebook, got me trying out e.g. delicious and eblogger, and generally got me exploring ways of using web2 in a way that works for me.  It´s been great fun.  I´ve even learned how to post )photo) blogs from my phone and post photos from my phone to smugmug. All a lot a fun (yes, I AM a nerd!).

I´m surprised that they haven´t got any integration for lastfm which seems a major omission (sharing sounds) in light of their other coverage - and I´m sad that smugmug isn´t on their photo site list. But otherwise, well worth checking out even if you are a bit dubious first ;-)

The Bear.

Blogged with the Flock Browser