Becoming A Flockstar

If you haven’t seen the new Flock web browser (powered by Mozilla, the people who brought you Firefox) you should check it out. It is a web browser with integrated social networking features.

Are you on Facebook? Flock integrates with your Facebook account and can add a Facebook sidebar complete with all your Facebook friends and shortcuts to some of your most-used functions. Got a Flickr account? Flock will integrate that, too and can open your photos, or your friend’s photos, in a media bar. Do you blog? You can set up your blog account in Flock so that you can publish to your blog straight from Flock. In fact, if there’s an article you find on the web that you want to blog about you can simply right click on it and “Blog this” right from your browser. It also integrates with webmail accounts like GMail and Yahoo! mail, social networking sites like Twitter and media sites like YouTube. It automatically opens a My World tab that you can customize to include all of your favorite friends and content.

And because Flock is made by the same people who brought you Firefox many Firefox extensions will also work in Flock. In addition, there are custom extensions available just for Flock.

I’ve hated Internet Explorer for some time now because it jams everything into one package whether you want or need all of its functionality or not. I’ve used Firefox for quite some time because it both runs faster and because I can leave out the things that I don’t need (which would only slow it down) and I can add what I do need, or just what I want.

But Flock may become my new favorite browser. I’m still learning all of the ins and outs, but if you’re in to social networking and/or media content I’d encourage you to check out Flock, the social web browser.

[HT: Todd]

Last Minute Opportunity

Today at 3 PM Central, 4 PM Eastern, go log into Shapevine (www.shapevine.com) and listen to Reggie McNeal for free. Earlier in the week they had Andrew Jones. Others in their lineup include Ed Stetzer, Alan Hirsch, Len Sweet, Sally Morganthaler and others. How cool is that?