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Friday (10/21/05)

Flock 9:16 am

I just downloaded Flock, and it’s almost awesome. Flock makes blogging easy by integrating with WordPress (including wordpress.com), Moveable Type, Typepad, and Blogger.

As a matter of fact, this is being posted from Flock.

It looks like it also makes blogging Flickr images a breeze, you just enter your Flickr username and open up the Flickr Topbar. It’s all drag-and-drop from there.

The list goes on. For a more complete one, check out this page.

This post was originally spoke quite highly of Flock, but after I submitted it I found some drawbacks.

Flock doesn’t let you add custom HTML into your posts (or the more tag) except through the very limited buttons that they have. I’m also not impressed with it’s use of BR tags. Of course we have to remember that this is just a developer’s release, so the official release will be much better. I don’t know if they’re planning on fixing this though.

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  • EngLee October 21st, 2005 @ 11:57 am (#)

    How about fixing it yourself?! ;)

    Do inform if the software has improved. I might want to try as well.

  • Oliver Zheng October 21st, 2005 @ 4:52 pm (#)

    It looks pretty awesome. I downloaded it a while ago and tried it out. Compared to the other blogging programs, this one is actually really good.

    But using software to blog just isn’t my thing :(

  • karpa-diem (Jake Garrison) October 21st, 2005 @ 9:42 pm (#)

    I downloaded it pretty much right after the announcement. Its pretty cool. I do like the flickr features… just wish it would intergrate with my custom (flickr album) gallery insted.

  • Marc October 27th, 2005 @ 9:03 am (#)

    Blue screened on me, reported it, uninstalled it. I’ll wait until its better…

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