Oh yo people, it’s spring time again, and the weather is super-fun. It’s awkward, but I feel the same way on the web too. The colors are vivid, the energy is high, and when you’re on flock, everything is kewl.
After a very long time, I made the toughest decision to give Flock a try (my desktop, which runs windows XP is actually in no mood to take any further load, given the fact that it already makes a noise similar to the one that a jet plane makes during take-off, whenever I run photoshop), and somehow it has gone down pretty fine till now
If you are a Firefox user, or have been one earlier, then you will find a stark similarity between Flock and Firefox (apart from the “F” word that they share in common). I came to a conclusion from viewing the first webpage, that they share the same default styles or something. The point is that if you test your design for firefox, it is assumed to be tested for Flock as well. Happy !
Certain good things about Flock are definitely the Feeds Sidebar and the People Sidebar. Actually I have just tried out these two, else I think the Webmail Sidebar and others must also be equivalently good.
The People Sidebar simply lets you log onto any of the services like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, et all, and then just follow your friends from the comfort of your sidebar. All the updates and everything else, are simply shown in the sidebar itself. Okay, the facebook app-a-holics will probably miss the fun of playing around with strange looking applications, but if you are not one of them, then the sidebar is one piece of joy. Here’s a screen shot of my facebook people sidebar.
Also, the other thing that I was talking about was the Feeds Sidebar. What I did was grabbed my own feeds at bishtblogs and then tried playing around with the functionalities that Flock provides. Simply put, you can view the feeds as Headlines, Excerpts, Full or even in one single-column or two-columns. Simple things you say. What’s great in that you say. I say why didn’t anybody do that earlier, the simple things that could have been earlier. It’s actually the same thing that Google follows – Beauty in simplicity – you just have to make simplicity stand out. Anyways, here’s my feeds page with a two column full article feed.
Hope you all enjoy Flock as much as I am. Anyone else writing about Flock, then do let me also know on that
