It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from the developers at Flock but they’ve just announced the release of Flock 2.5 which, unsurprisingly for a browser with a heavy focus on social networking, showcases impressive enhanced integration with Twitter and Facebook.
Shawn Hardin of the Flock team says:
Flock 2.5 makes sharing and discovering content fast and easy. You just drag and drop URLs, photos, videos, text or other things you find on the web to a friend’s Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or other profile in Flock’s People Sidebar and it’s instantly shared. And now Flock comes with Twitter Search right in MyWorld, so you can keep up to date on all the topics you’re most interested in and save them in the best place possible, your Flock browser.
There’s no need to use a separate twitter client with Flock because you have one built into the left navigation bar – and pretty impressive it is too. Probably the stand-out features are the fact that you can simply drag and drop images into your tweets and you can define keywords for twitter searches that Flock will automatically monitor for you.
Meanwhile Facebook users have been catered for with a Facebook Chat client that goes with you wherever you go. So even if you’re surfing other websites, you can still chat to contacts in a Facebook Chat style client that sits at the bottom of the browser. Finally, another nice innovation is FlockCast which enables you to update several social networking features at once – perfect for social networking addicts who can’t be bothered visiting each site separately.
Although I’m increasingly impressed by each release of Flock, I still find the browser overwhelming in terms of the amount it tries to fit in. However, I guess this is inevitable for a browser that integrates so many social networking sites. However, as Twitter and Facebook grow, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it really take-off one day. Note that at the time of writing, version 2.5 is only available for download in US English language but presumably other languages will follow shortly.
