{"id":7576,"date":"2008-11-07T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/brants\/?p=739"},"modified":"2008-11-07T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:26:07","slug":"social-aggregation-birds-of-the-same-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/11\/07\/social-aggregation-birds-of-the-same-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Aggregation &#8211; Birds of the same feather&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flock<\/a> quite sometime back, and even used it for a few days. I was quite impressed with the social aggregation, and the sheer number of sharing sites it was tying together on a browser. Flock has recently released version 2 of the browser, though the Beta was launched back in June. The major updates are <span id=\"intelliTXT\">MySpace integration and Media RSS accessibility, <\/span>a standard developed by Yahoo that syndicates rich content like photos and videos<span id=\"intelliTXT\">. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centernetworks.com\/flock-moves-20-browser-release-into-full-public-release\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/10\/14\/whos-afraid-of-chrome-flock-2-released-with-even-more-bells-and-whistles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Crunch<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it puzzles me that I am still unable to figure out why I didn&#8217;t stick with it. Though adding all the services- from blogs to photo sharing to status updating services is a tedious exercise, it&#8217;s something I managed to do. Its load time is greater than others,but I doubt that&#8217;s the reason. After having thought about it, I figured out a few other possible reasons<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>the sheer lethargy of changing the preferred browser, especially since there are a few plugins in Firefox that have made life much easier. (but i just <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2008\/10\/15\/flock-my-favorite-browser-officially-turns-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a> that most of them should work in Flock. Yes, it has the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/a-little-something-awesome-about-firefox-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Awesome Bar <\/a>too, something that has proven to be extremely useful)<\/li>\n<li>the existence of a web\/ desktop client based service like Friendfeed which does a fair bit of social aggregation<\/li>\n<li>a browser plugin like Yoono which does roughly the same job as above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While I am now a fairly good user of Friendfeed, I haven&#8217;t used Yoono much.\u00a0 But I did read a couple of days back that Yoono has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/10\/31\/yoono-announces-support-for-ie-new-services\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> support for IE and is adding Imeem and MySpace.\u00a0 It is also adding an interesting shopping widget soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, as if all these weren&#8217;t enough, I also read recently about the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sobees<\/a>, a social desktop aggregator. Both Flock and Sobees have a very useful picture uploading feature.Its interesting the social aggregation wars being fought on several platforms &#8211; browser, desktop, browser plugin, web.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, there are other browsers popping up. Mac users can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/cruzapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz<\/a>, a multi pane social browser, about which I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/cruz_a_smart_multipane_browser.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There is some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/6098\/mozilla-minefield\/\" target=\"_blank\">work happening<\/a> on Mozilla&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/minefield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minefield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So now, i am wondering what will work for me &#8211; Flock 2.0, or the combination of Firefox and the Yoono plugin? With Chrome&#8217;s awesome speed, only one of the above alternatives will survive. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve noticed that Chrome and FF don&#8217;t really take to each other. Invariably FF develops problems when Chrome is run simultaneously. Anyone else having the same issue?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">until next time, browse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Flock quite sometime back, and even used it for a few days. I was quite impressed with the social aggregation, and the sheer number of sharing sites it was tying together on a browser. Flock has recently released version 2 of the browser, though the Beta was launched back in June. 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