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flock 2 has been released !!!

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www.flock.com

Ive been using the flock browser since about version 0.5
they have just released version 2.
whats so good about that i hear you ask ?
well, I sell music online. so I have profiles on most of the ’social networking sites’ I also have a host of email addresses - some purely for myself, others purely for my bands.

so, whats so good about this new version of flock ?

well. It has myspace support for one thing.
myspace is now built directly into the browser.
you dont even need to go to myspace to check if you have new mail. it shows you on your homepage when you open your browser.
flock has had support for youtube accounts for a while now, also flickr accounts, picasa, twitter and pownce, facebook and digg accounts too.
all the information about all your friends shows in a neat column on your homepage, with all the rss feeds you subscribe to and your most visited sites.
handy indeed.
I did notice that it thinks I dont have any friends on myspace (maybe cos I have too many of them) but it does tell me that I have 1 message =) which is all I really want it to do.
ok, scratch that, I just got inundated with myspace statuses! it just took a few minutes to process all the people!
now I have one less account to check when I dont need to be there. all they need now is bebo support (or support for multiple accounts on myspace and facebook, so i can have my personal and my band profiles all in one stream)

another major thing it now has is theme support!

I think though that the best part of flock is the blog editor - you just put the details of your blogs (I have three set up at the moment)
and it gives you a text editor that you can type your blog post in, add pictures, video clips, etc then upload to your blog and view the finnished article - you dont even need to log into your blog to do this - it does it all for you!

there isnt much change from the beta, apart from the addition of myspace, but the improvement over version 1 is fantastic!

try it out for yourself. you will be amiased.
it works on linux, mac and

that crappy other microsoft platform too =)

get it from www.flock.com

anyway, here are some screenshots for you to enjoy..

Screenshot of Flock's My World

Screenshot of image drag and drop to Flock's People Sidebar

Screenshot of Flock's Blog Editor

Blogged with the Flock Browser

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