Other Systems & Languages
You can't call Flock a social browser if it doesn't connect up with a service like Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr. The mini/micro blogging crazy is kicking in, IMO. There's also legal file sharing sites like Box.net and media sites like Last.FM, Anywhere.FM, and possibly even Wixi.com (not sure Wixi's going to take off). Then, there are video hosting sites like BlogTV, Viddler.com, Kyte.TV, Vpod.TV, BlogTalkRadio.com.
I know, I know, I don't seriously expect you guys to integrate all of these, I'm just throwing them out there in hopes that some can get worked in sometime.
I personally like the new look/style/etc. Keep up the great work!!
OH and I forgot the community UI idea--perhaps you could have something that would allow users to log into any community site and just leave it at that? Just a little UI or even just a web page that would display all of the communities the user has memberships in. Click one and up pops a log in form for that site.
Just a thought!
Evan Hamilton
Hey peteski,
Thanks for the kind words and suggestions!
As you can see at www.flock.com/privatebeta, the focus of our 1.0 is indeed social browsing, at an even more powerful level than just seeing your communities.
As for integrating other services, we consider services to integrate based on community requests, service popularity, service growth, API availability, brand compatibility, and several other factors. Some make it in, some don't. Requesting them is always good (I log every vote). :)
Additionally, we plan to enhance our developer resources this year to make it easier for developers to plug their own services into Flock. Everybody wins.
Flock on!
Evan Hamilton
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Stephen W. Carson
One more vote for Tumblr integration. The Media Bar and Tumblr could have a beautiful relationship. (Imagine dragging a YouTube video or a Flickr image out of the Media Bar right to your Tumblr blog. Sweet!)
Vancheswaran
1 vote for Twitter... 1 vote for picassa
Evan Hamilton
Logged.
Evan Hamilton
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Rich
Yep - Picasa would be nice!
Paul Pereira
10 votes each for Pownce, Tumblr., orkut, friendster, and don't forget digg...
Markus Karzelek
1 vote for picassa - 1 vote for verwandt.de/moikrewni.pl/...
luxus
you really should add a feature voting tool :D
add a vote for vox, jaiku and picasa
priority for me have picasa
Ahmaud Templeton
Let's not forget Last.fm, my other social networking obsession. Integrating support for that into Flock would be pretty sweet.
madthoughts
Tumblr +1 FTW!
Picnik +1 (the FF extension is great but I would like to see what you cats could do as well.)
Santam
orkut, picasa
adrenalinenz
+1 here for Picasa.
Updated to 1.0 today, must say it is looking a lot more polished :)
Evan Hamilton
Votes logged.
@luxus: I'd like to do this, but I have reservations...two, really:
1. Cheating. This could be beat by making you vote with a flock.com account, but that's some development work that I don't know if I can justify
2. You folks, as awesome as you are, don't represent the entire Flock userbase...you're all awesome, advanced, evangelistic users. Your vote is very important (and you can see that we take it seriously...Twitter is not a mass-market service), but can't be considered to realistically represent our whole audience. I'm not sure how to reconcile this.
So for now, I will continue to manually log votes. :)
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
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Evan Hamilton
PS: Picasa is being investigated for integration in our next big release, 1.1. I can't make any promises, but it's looking very good so far! More news when I have it.
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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Jon Pape
twitter, furl.net, picasa
Evan Hamilton
Logged. Picasa votes are no longer needed...either we will be able to integrate or we won't. :)
Evan Hamilton
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Evan Hamilton
By the way, Jon Pape: Twitter is integrated in Flock 1.0. Download it today from this very site and check out the awesomeness.
Evan Hamilton
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Mitch
I would definitely like to see Flock integrated with Picasa, Tumblr, and maybe even Pownce. Have Flock's developers ever considered integrating the more popular forum software like Invision (http://www.invisionboard.com/)? It sure would be a useful way to track friends, replies, and posted media.
Steve
I'd like to vote for Tumblr, Pandora, and last.fm
=)
emilime
Tumblr++
Pownce+
kyjeeper
Tumblr....
maybe Jott???
and Pandora and last.fm would rock
Evan Hamilton
Votes logged.
Evan Hamilton
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Daniel Filho
Tumblr +++++
Evan Hamilton
2 votes logged.
Evan Hamilton
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Friedbeef
Please log... Tumblr, Last.FM, and blogging categories
James Curry
+1 for Last.fm and
+1 for Tumblr
Those are two wonderful sites that would work incredibly well with Flock.
Evan Hamilton
@Donna Miller: You can update Twitter by clicking your current status. You can then type it in and hit enter. We'll be exposing this with an "edit" button in Flock 1.1, as it is hard to find.
All above votes logged.
Evan Hamilton
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Noah
Tumblr++ !
originofawful
Tumblr & Digg = Much Win.
Chris Pallé
Pownce +1
Last.fm +1
Tumblr +1
digg, eh.
i think the link to update twitter is sweet. the rollover link does enough, don't start to clutter... Or you could do something to instruct... just no clutter :-) thxbai
Karl S
+1 for box.net for me. Would v useful. Just discovered your browser, love it.
Evan Hamilton
Votes logged.
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Grace L
+1 tumblr
+1 pandora?
thank you!
crackhead
One more vote for Tumblr!!!
Mnem
Jaiku please! and most definitely Last.fm
:)
shinyobjects
please add another vote for Tumblr
p.s.: webmail integration has been awesome!
rodzilla
+1 vote for Tumblr
+1 vote for Pownce
Warren Benedetto
+1 tumblr
or even better, hellotxt ... then we can update all our microblogs at once
Greg Hills
tumblr please!
potzie
I'd like to see qype.com and xing.com connected to flock! *vote*
cdzombak
+1 vote for Tumblr, last.fm, and Pandora!
Silver Wolf
How about some other services to throw into the mix? For instance...what about these three lovely options?
MyBlogLog
Yahoo! 360
Shelfari
Shelfari's a bit of a stretch, I know, but the rest could be possibilities...right?
halogoggles
This is a little redundant, but +1 for Tumblr!
Evan Hamilton
Votes logged! Tumblr's got some loooove!
Evan Hamilton
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Mattias Pettersson
Jaiku - would be brilliant thank you
DY
+1 Pownce, please!
:)
porta
tumblr++
last.fm++
I can help if you want.
Scheesy
+1 for Tumblr...
ChaCha Fance
Tumblr all the way!
Digg would be nice too =)
Glenn Dixon
Another vote for Tumblr and Picasa - also, now that Flickr has video it would be nice to be able to upload those along with the photos. Vimeo as well!