I’m using Flock to make this post as an experiment. I recall hearing a little about this web browser during its initial phase of development, but the beta 1 of the program was released today.

What’s the big deal? Well, users of FireFox would be interested to know that it is based on your beloved browser. Flock goes a little bit further to integrate many of the web tools that are quite popular these days, especially bloggers.

Flock is a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, and search the Web. [flock]

That doesn’t sound overly impressive, but there’s more.

Some of the features include drag-and-drop photo uploading for Flickr and Photobucket, an in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool(Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, MoveableType, Typepad and WordPress), and shared favorites/bookmarks. [slashdot]

The current release is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, but remember that this is a beta. There are still bugs to work out of the browser, but my initial look at it is positive. Flickr support is pretty cool, but I haven’t really tried doing too much with uploading anything new. I have a handy widget for doing that.

We’ll see how this posts as my final test with it for today.

Blogged with Flock