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Aug 21
2008
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Many people are using del.icio.us to manage their bookmarks. While del.icio.us makes it easy to get to your bookmarks from any computer, it doesn't integrate well with the bookmark functions in Firefox or other browsers. Flock, on the other hand, uses del.icio.us to manage "Favorites" so you can share bookmarks between computers, and make easy use of del.icio.us bookmarks in Flock. With Flock, just click the "Star this page" button and the page will be added to your del.icio.us bookmarks. By default, you need to click on a tiny arrow next to the star button to add del.icio.us tags to bookmarks, but you can change this in the Flock preferences so that you're prompted to add tags to each bookmark before they're added to your del.icio.us collection.
Blogging features
The current version of Flock has support for publishing to WordPress, Movable Type, Typepad, and Blogger blogs using the built-in blog editor. Support for LiveJournal is supposed to be on the way, as is support for other weblog platforms.
If you're browsing a page that you want to mention on your blog, Flock has a "Blog This" menu entry in the right-click context menu that pops up the Flock blog editor with a link to the page and its title.
If you do a lot of blogging, you can open the Blog Topbar, a larger menu that lists your most recent blog entries, a button for creating a new post, and a "Drag stuff to blog it!" button. If you highlight some text and drag it to the "Drag stuff" button, Flock presents the blog editor window with the text formatted as a blockquote, and a link to the page you selected the text from.
If you spend a lot of time on online social activities, Flock is worth a look.
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