As much as Flock rocks, there are small problems. *cough* eatting megs of memory *cough*
Great news if you have this problem! Flock is being put on a diet. Dr. Pete has put Flock through a thorough examination and determined that gzip compression doesn't agree with Flock indexer. Simply put, we have a huge memory leak every time we index a compressed web page. (many sites send files compressed, including gmail and meebo which cause flock to leak LOTS of memory)
We are actively working on a fix for this, a few other small bugs and add support for BB code. We will release a new version of the Cardinal soon, but I'll let Mike (older than epoch) Dosik blog about that.
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.
Bookmarks has been an area that there has been little to no innovation. Bookmarks are used to express interest and find web pages. To that end in flock so far we have:
We added tagging and collections to organize your bookmarks.
We added full text search of your favorites and history to find pages you've visited.
We added live search to find pages you've yet to visit.
We've added syncing of your bookmarks to social services so you can share your bookmarks with the world or just your other computers.
We made it easy to switch between "bookmark toolbars" - so you can have different toolbars for different contexts.
