Flock 1.1 beta will add web Email, Picasa and more to your web browser
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Social web browser Flock is planning to launch 3 major new features in about two weeks. Like its predecessors, Flock 1.1 beta is built on Firefox code but it has a ton of features that make it easier to keep in touch with your social networking services like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube.
Flock 1.1 adds:
- Web Mail Integration - Not only can you easily check your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail with the click of a button in the newest version of Flock, but you can also share web pages, images, and articles just by clicking the email icon in the URL bar.
- Friend Activity - Flock now aggregates your friends’ activity from across all supported social networking services and displays it in chronological order. This could be the easiest way ever to find out which friends have updated their profiles, sent out tweets, or uploaded new media or blog posts.
- Picasa Integration - Flock has added support for Picasa Web Albums, allowing you to upload images from Flock, share images via email, or browse through images using the media bar. You can also send images to friends just by dragging an image from your media bar to a Facebook, Twitter, or other contact in the People Sidebar.
We got a chance to play with an early version of Flock 1.1 and we were pretty impressed with how well the new social features are integrated into the internet browser. The Friend Activity screen and web mail checker don’t check for updates quite as often as we’d like, but hopefully the Flock team will provide users with the capability to customize how frequently the browser checks for new email and friend activity in the future.
Flock is available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new beta version should be out before the end of January.
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