So I decided to try out Flock today, the “social” web browser that is based on Firefox 3. It’s designed specifically to work with all of the social networks. When you first sign in to Flock, it’ll ask you to start adding accounts and services.

Once you add an account to Flock, it keeps you logged in (like actually logs you in if you somehow logged out) and gives you extra functionality based on what you’re doing. For example. most social networks would give you a list of your friends in the people sidebar.

The Media sidebar can fill up with lots of different things from your social network, such as stories from digg or recent photos from your friends from Facebook.

Lots of drag and drop stuff, like a drag and drop web clipboard and drag and drop photo uploading for Facebook and stuff like that.

And most importantly, an integrated blog editor that I’m using right now to write this post.

Since Flock is based on Firefox 3, a lot of Firefox extensions work with Flock, like stumble upon and Foxmarks.

I am a little disappointed, however, at some of the social networks that are missing from flock, such as reddit, stumbleupon (with the people sidebar stuff) and stuff like drag and drop photo uploading to open source photo platforms (such as the one my site runs). Oh, and the theme is ugly and there doesn’t seem to be anyone who’s made a theme for it yet.

But yah, I’d definately say it’s worth trying out.

UPDATE: Trying to put photos in this blog post using Flock was not very easy and I ended up going online anyways. That’s another strike against it.