Flock might just be the package to make me switch browsers from IE/Maxthon for my home computer time.
Flock is billed as "the social web browser" and integrates data from sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious, listing all your friends in the one place along with the last time they updated something. It is open source, has a built-in photo uploader for Flickr, and works with the majority of Firefox extensions (it's actually built on top of Mozilla), among other things.
I've tried Firefox in the past but just didn't see how it was any better than Maxthon, which basically wraps and enhances Internet Explorer in more ways than I could mention. Of course I'm still using Maxthon at work; it's just that Flock aggregates many of the sites I visit after hours anyway.
I've yet to try the built-in feed reader and I honestly have to say that I don't have any friends on Flickr or whatever apart from my Facebook dabbling (I'm what's known as a "Scott"..."'s Got No Friends"). However the Facebook integration is pretty good. And using Flock did convince me of the value of signing up for Delicious - which looks like a useful service.
Has anyone else had any experience of Flock, or any tips for using it?
Tags: flock, browser, social, web, facebook