Like everyone else, I’m trying out Flock right now. Flock is a beta Web 2.0 browser with built in del.icio.us tagging, flickr posting and blogging (including to here), and integrated RSS reading. So far, I have to say I’m damn impressed. Del.icio.us makes the web usable, but Flock makes del.icio.us usable. The blog posting seems pretty decent, and it integrates with a ton of blogging software. As for the flickr integration, not sure about that part yet as I really don’t do much flickring.
My only requests so far:
- Dump the tag images off the del.icio.us so we can see more tags on the screen at once.
- List the number of sites each tag has next to the tag.
- Let the user sort tags by title or number of tagged sites.
- Let the user drill down into a tag, filtering by subsequently smaller subtags. (The OS X Finder interface for drilling down would work really well here)
- Fix lists in the blogging tool
All in all, kudos to the Flock team, this is a pretty sweet way to browse the web as a participant instead of just as a viewer.
Update: Having fiddled with flock more, I can tell you it has one absolutly killer feature. Flock ships with the open source Clucene search engine. Clucene indexes every page you visit, and will give you real time search results from that index as you type search terms into the search bar. With this feature, losing old pages because you can’t remember the address is essentially a thing of the past. This is utterly badass. For more of their features, check out their 13 things you can do with flock.