Flock web browser review

1. You'll find it really useful for your own web socializing!
   Keep up to date very easily with your RSS feeds, email, and a host of Flock-supported services including YouTube, Gmail, Facebook, del.icio.us - but of course, you can add your other fave sites to the favorites toolbar running along the top.

2. Use Flock for an all-in-one-place social bookmarker and website promotion tool.
   Log in to your Twitter, Digg, or blogging accounts with Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress and more, and add toolbars for Stumbleupon or Jumptags, for example - some of the extensions/plugins for Firefox work perfectly well with Flock, I've found.

Get Flocking!

I've added the Stumbleupon and Jumptags toolbars to Flock myself. Add your own social bookmarking/networking sites in the Toolbar Favorites for quick reference

The Flock web browser contains a set of Flock-supported accounts and services within various toolbars, and once you've logged into your accounts, and saved your passwords, you're all set - you'll become a real social butterfly with all your accounts easily accessible - and visible!

Add your own toolbars and favorites to customize, and you're all set to taking control of that ever-changing and somewhat manic social side of the web.

The fact is that most of us aren't going to be blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, website page building, Digging, Mixxing or Stumbleuponing 24/7.

It would be impossible to keep up with keeping up - your efforts are generally better spent on building your website as a priority, then choosing two or three website promotion strategies within the tools offered by Flock as well as bookmarking a few of your own personal preferences.

You can do a few minutes of Stumbleupon. Add an an entry to your Blogger blog. Then Digg a few articles - and maybe even one of your own.

The only problem I've found is getting sidetracked - I tend to end up messing around with Facebook, or find something very interesting on Stumbleupon that I then end up researching a little more. Or I click the RSS tab and find myself engrossed in a very long forum thread.

Know what I mean? ;)

Another great advantage of using the Flock web browser is that it keeps your other browsers from becoming cluttered with social sites and toolbars, keeping your focus on your other online activities.

Using Flock

Sidebars

Click, login, then you're done.

The Facebook sidebar is "live" if you're logged in, so you can see all recent activity.

Instant clicks to your Dugg stories or click to Digg a page - or Twitter from your sidebar - and so on.

RSS sidebar
Arranged just like your list of bookmarks, with the number of new items per feed clearly marked. Easy to add any feed.

Favorites
The usual favorites sidebar - but you can also automatically send pages you favorite up to del.icio.us if you want.

Accounts and services
Shows all available Flock web browser supported accounts, including the "People" accounts up above, and also media sharing accounts such as

• Photobucket
• Picasa
• Piczo

Blogging accounts with

• Blogger
• Blogsome
• LiveJournal
• Typepad
• Wordpress
• Xanga
• your own hosted blog

Online favorites
Online bookmarking sites - so here you'll find del.icio.us and Magnolia.

Email
AOL, Gmail and Yahoo! mail all feature here.

Web clipboard

Top/bottom media bar

• Digg
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Photobucket
• Truveo
• or YouTube

For example, you can check for latest media from Digg about science - either latest stories, or top in the last 24 hours etc. Or how about streaming YouTube top rated or recently added video?

Favorite your chosen media stream, and the icon glows when new content is available! Cool. Or - open up your email to compose, and drag and drop media thumbnails into your message - fast and easy.

Alternatively, share thumbnails by right clicking on them for emailing or blogging - or drag them to your web clipboard, mentioned above.

Gloss and Eco Flock web browsers!

or try the Eco Edition (no button for that one, saving on resources no doubt ;)