June 14, 2006
Flock Released in Beta - Is It a PLE?
[Problems with a slow server meant this post was originally posted several times as I misintepreted a Flock error message...]The Flock browser is now available in beta...
With full blogging integration (I'm writing this post in the Blog Post tool, which supports wysiwyg or code views), photoservice integration (flickr, photobucket), feed reader (fully integrated with feed autodetection), bookmark service integration (delicios and shadows), enhanced search (live search over local favourites, history and your search engine of preference) and an in-built notepad(drag text or images to it for later use), this is a seriously neat browser:-)
The photo-integration/photo-publishing is particularly clever. I pasted a clipboard copy of the above image in the blog tool and the browser uploaded it for me to my photo-sharing service account, then dropped the link to the image in to the post.
This integrated content consumind and content publishing environemnt is just the sort of thing that was being talked about at last week's CETIS PLE events (and also in Stephen Downe's talk here at the OU) [I've still to blog my thoughts about these.]
In particular, during those events, Stephen gave a quick demo of writr, a minmal (and very effective) browser based authoring environment, and Scott Wilson demoed Plex a couple of times (I reviewed it briefly here, but now I've seen what it can do, I think I need to revisit it).
I wonder how well a FLock demo would have gone down too???? More on Flock when I've had a chance to play with it a bit more...
Blogged with Flock
Posted by ajh59 at June 14, 2006 07:57 PM