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Flock seems pretty nice.  I am trying it out tonight and I really, really, really like it

I think in the course of just a few minutes, it has already won me over as my favorite means of composing entries to post in my blog.

Flock is way more powerfully equiped than I expected.  According to the site, its status is somewhere between alpha and beta right now.  They want developers to try it out, if they like.  I can see why.  It is better than someone who has not tried it could ever imagine.

As you can see, it can certainly post to your Friendster blog, should you wish to get it and use it. 

It also has capabilities to:

• share bookmarks with other people (and tag them)
• share photos via Flickr (or Photobucket)
• read - and aggregate - newsfeeds

Flock is based on Firefox.  So, Firefox extension authors can adapt their extensions to work with Flickr with very little effort. Some really good extensions are already available for Flock.  The same goes for Themes.

The Help system is pertty neat.  They have set up a MediaWiki, and filled it with the online help for Flock.  I have not heard someone complain they do not like the looks, content types, layout, or style of Wikipedia, so MediaWiki will probably be aesthetic to most people.  Mediawiki supports a pretty rich set of content types.

This Flock thing really does advance the state of the art of web browsers.  It opens up some web services, freeing them from the surly bonds of the normal web page interface, and gives them a much more user-friendly look and feel.  It is far more convenient for using some web sites, than using the old, familiar web page for the site in an old, familiar web browser.

Flock is going to raise the bar for what people expect from a web browser. 

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