For those of you that haven’t been online in a few months, the buzzworthy Flock browser is coming soon. While it is going to be a challenger for Mozilla’s Firefox browser, it will attract a different type of crowd. Flock has been marketed as being keen with the latest web trends such as blogs and online communities, including a dashboard type feature where users can compose blog entries and post blog. It might even be a competitor to what I believe is the reigning blog managing software, Qumana. Flock is fairly close to public release since one of the developers released screenshots on his flickr account. From what I can tell Flock looks stunning and has some massive potential. The integrated tags feature seems interesting and it appears as though a search field in the upper right of the browser lets you search wordpress blogs… that’s what I’m assuming by the “W” logo next to the search field. I can’t wait to get my hands on the first public release, especially after seeing Jon Hicks’, creator of the Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird logos, name as one of the contributors.
edit: On second thought, the “W” logo next to the search field is likely for Wikipedia, the amazing collaborative, open source encyclopedia… just as good though!
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For WYSIWYG blogging, also check out RocketPost: http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost
It’s the most advanced blog editor out right now (disclaimer, I designed it).
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Hey thanks for the mention. The whole new social browsing and making blogging easy is a really exciting area right now. I think Flock looks very interesting, of course I still think Qumana is going to remain a strong player in the offline editor space, IMHO and bias evident.
We love to hear from people who are using Qumana and what people would like to see in future versions. Look for a new release very soon.
-T
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The fact of the matter is that both Qumana and RocketPost run on Windows only. I may post occasionally from my Windows laptop but when I’m at my desk on my Mac Mini, I will likely open up Flock to post to my blog than boot up the laptop. Thats just something you guys should consider. A good percentage of web developers, and thus a good amount of the people that would use your software, run Macs.
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I’m totally stoked. Thanks for sharing.
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Qumana has considered it Paul, thanks. We are more than on top of it. I cannot say a date, but it’s not far around the corner that we will be fully cross-platform :)
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Flock seems like this amazing next generation browser! How do I get in on the action?
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BTW this is the coolest app since Firefox was Phoenix and tabbed browsing was this weird new fad.