If Flock is collecting what my friends are up to - blog posts, pictures, comments on social sites, on and on, what can I do with it? Sure there is all the normal stuff like aggregation, searching, enhancing browsing individual sites (much like the photobar makes flickr easier to navigate for some use-cases).
But! Crazy thought - what if it actually acted as a local "server". On a mac, you could have an RSS feed that gets displayed on that cool screensaver of what your friends are up to. You could have your friends' pictures on your desktop. Maybe I'd want a separate application that is always checking for new stuff and notifying me when I have new stuff (running in my taskbar, using growl, or d-bus, ...) even when Flock was closed.
What crazy things can Flock do with all your and your friends' "stuff"?
July 26, 2006 - 12:29am — Your Name (not verified)
I like the idea of a taskbar notification, anything that can streamline/filter my most important feeds/websites/photostreams would be a good addition. It is adding functionality without taking up yet more of my screen real estate (as long as you don't start getting to fatware-ish).
Only slight issue I have with your post is the line about comments on social sites - the only way I can keep track of my conversations at present is to either add an rss comment feed of a blog/social site (if one is available) or use the buggy cocomment extension. If flock was able to better integrate the comment side of social browsing it would be a welcome addition.
July 26, 2006 - 12:56am — Daniel Botting (not verified)
Apologies, not sure where to post this.
First of all been using Flock since about 0.4, very impressed. Seem to find myself using it more than Firefox.
I use Flock (0.7.1) on Kubuntu Dapper and when you click on comments, they are not straight below the original article, but a good scroll down the screen.
One other item I noticed, which has now been rectified, the playlist for a number of weeks was in Chinese or such like.
Many thanks, where should I post any possible bugs I might notice?
July 26, 2006 - 4:02am — Shawn Smith (not verified)
Interesting idea. I use two things to build this kind of system today. For example I use NewsFire still to alert me when friends have new photos, blog posts, emails to me etc in tandem with Flock. Why? Well becuase it puts a nice badge on the desktop and adds growl notifications to the experience. I like your idea but perhaps Flock should just act more like some of the other RSS feed readers on the market with a bit more of a social focus from the ground up, rather then one where I have to set up the relationships manually.
Growl notifications of certain events (new pics, new posts or feeds etc.) would be pretty cool actually...! As long as it's configurable...otherwise one might get flooded...
A menu notification icon might also come in handy for some people...
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browsing this site, i hit the comments button in this post several times before i realised they had loaded, but were displayed way down the page with a load of whitespace in between. Is this a browser, site or idiot user error?
Onto the features bit, have you considered integration with Moodle? A browser capable of displaying course assignments, quizzes etc etc would be very cool especially if I could post up work from the web snippets...
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I like the idea of a taskbar notification, anything that can streamline/filter my most important feeds/websites/photostreams would be a good addition. It is adding functionality without taking up yet more of my screen real estate (as long as you don't start getting to fatware-ish).
Only slight issue I have with your post is the line about comments on social sites - the only way I can keep track of my conversations at present is to either add an rss comment feed of a blog/social site (if one is available) or use the buggy cocomment extension. If flock was able to better integrate the comment side of social browsing it would be a welcome addition.
Apologies, not sure where to post this.
First of all been using Flock since about 0.4, very impressed. Seem to find myself using it more than Firefox.
I use Flock (0.7.1) on Kubuntu Dapper and when you click on comments, they are not straight below the original article, but a good scroll down the screen.
One other item I noticed, which has now been rectified, the playlist for a number of weeks was in Chinese or such like.
Many thanks, where should I post any possible bugs I might notice?
Apologies if this is annoying.
Keep up the great work
Daniel
Daniel, the site is a bit buggy but am sure flock are working on it.
As for bug reporting: bugzilla
hmm, link didn't work sorry, take two:
http://bugzilla.flock.com/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided
Interesting idea. I use two things to build this kind of system today. For example I use NewsFire still to alert me when friends have new photos, blog posts, emails to me etc in tandem with Flock. Why? Well becuase it puts a nice badge on the desktop and adds growl notifications to the experience. I like your idea but perhaps Flock should just act more like some of the other RSS feed readers on the market with a bit more of a social focus from the ground up, rather then one where I have to set up the relationships manually.
Thoughts?
S.
Yes, yes, yes! But please make sure us Linux users get something too :) Not having greasemonkey is bad enough.
I want a crawl of status updates of my friends activity along the bottom of the screen, just like CNN. Seriously.
Growl notifications of certain events (new pics, new posts or feeds etc.) would be pretty cool actually...! As long as it's configurable...otherwise one might get flooded...
A menu notification icon might also come in handy for some people...
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nice browser! :)
browsing this site, i hit the comments button in this post several times before i realised they had loaded, but were displayed way down the page with a load of whitespace in between. Is this a browser, site or idiot user error?
Onto the features bit, have you considered integration with Moodle? A browser capable of displaying course assignments, quizzes etc etc would be very cool especially if I could post up work from the web snippets...
Checking this page again in firefox, it would appear that flock isn't jumping to the comments correctly?
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