Good News Everyone, I have dun all the research for you.Its all right here,everything that flock has to offer at the flick of a mouse.You will be all set when using this browsing tool to operate your business or just connecting with friends online.
I personally love flock, not only for its plug and play features & ease
0f use but for its nearly endless extensions that can be added,very easily may I add.Don't take my word for it, hear what the owner has to say along with some leading marketing professionals.
Where do you see the Browser going in the next 1-3 years?
Geoffrey: I view the browser as a great facilitator of interaction. And right now we are just focusing on nailing these experiences on the PC but I would have to agreed with Ted that the browser will become more and more pervasive whether on computers or on consoles. The question is how can you make the experience consistent across all of these and using Flock on all of these devices allows for a seamless integration. I want to make sure whatever we build that we are always mindful of the fact that the intended interaction should never be subordinate to the technology delivered or consumed.
Open this link for the whole interview
http://www.centernetworks.com/audio/mp3/flockinterview.mp3
Getting Started with the Flock 1.2a Browser:
I have a new social media friend and no, I’m not talking about the tons of random friends requests you get on a daily basis. I’m talking about a piece of social networking software that can help you get your arms around the online social scene. I’m talking about Flock, the web browser that’s based off the Mozilla project.
I know what your thinking. Who needs ANOTHER browser when FireFox 3.0 has just been released? I think FireFox has made some great improvements, but they are improvements to an old model of consuming the Internet. Browsers like FireFox and Internet Explorer have come to power as part of the Internet land rush where the primary goal of the online website visitor was to “browse” sites looking for things to consume like text and images. But the online landscape has grown to include audio, video, and social networks. So it makes sense to have a browser that understands how to handle these additional part of the online experience.
According to the Flock website, “When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.”
As a social browser Flock helps you pull together most of the more popular social networks into one common dashboard.
For example, using Flock I can see all my friends from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter all in one sidebar. Different networks are listed under their own tabs and all the networks can be crunched down into one tab that create a single activity stream or view.
The icon of each person in my people stream has a network badge to tell me what network they are on.
A great feature of Flock is the media stream. As I select a friend in my people sidebar, I can see all the available media for that person. I instantly see their pictures, videos, and other media options. From there I can leave comments on that piece of content.
The benefit here is speed. I am just a few clicks from the networks I use and I can move between social networks and still maintain one common user experience.
Flock also helps you extract content on a page that might overlook. For example, if you load a page in Flock that has an RSS feed, Flock will ask if you want to add it to your feed sidebar.
Again, the important point here is speed. You are not wasting time looking for feed addresses when subscribing to content. You can even add additional social networks and useful links to your favorites which can show up as a sidebar to give you one click access to your most common online resources. I use mine to get to Picasa, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and Gmail.
Even though Firefox has a ton of addons that I use, I still find myself using Flock all the time now. It’s obvious to me that this is the next generation browser. Social media is here to stay and Flock offers a real solution managing the social networks.
Months ago I overlooked Flock as just another me-too browser in a noisy browser market, but today I understand that it’s a social networking tool that should be in the social toolbox of every online marketer and social butterfly. It’s the best kept secret that wont stay that way for long.
Enjoy,
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
Flock has extensive features but with the simple installation of extensions you can extend the functionality that much further. Check out more here
There are now new ways of approaching old problem using what flock gives you for free,I feel that flock could very well be the best of web 2.0 social media marketing.
Tell me what you think.I would love your feed back on this and any other helpful thoughts you my have
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