do it. think it. blog it! ... a twisted world

Flock a Web 2.0 browser, packed with social software tools was released a few days ago. Well, the term 2.0 was the key !!. I was so excited about this and went ahead and downloaded the browser just to see whats in store in the future to come.

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The Flock website also had the bold statement

ain't for the faint of heart! If you're the bleeding-edge type and don't mind a few scrapes and busted knees from time to time, feel free to give it a whirl."

Well, surprises, surprises... What I saw was..

• port of Mozilla's FireFox codebase
• meek del.icio.us integration
• rss feeds that did'nt outbeat Google's feed reader
• blog integration which was nothing but a simple integration of every blog software's existing API.

Well, I am not trying to say that the folks at flock have done a half-hearted job, but from my perspective, it's no different than firefox with a few extensions preconfigured. I expected a lot more than that. First impressions count; and my tipoff to the folks @ flock would be to make their next release shock us all. They could even name the next release as flockshock; and here are a few things I'd like to see integrated..

1. Map24
2. jlGui
3. ChatPoint
4. BlogBridge
5. eBay
6. PayPal
7. LimeWire
8. Airport Monitor
9. & lots lots more...

As of now I have uninstalled flock, just because there's no compelling reason to use it in lieu of FireFox. (for now...)

I am not much of a microsoft fan, but integrating this with flock or vice versa as well could be a good start.