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Flock is a "social browser" built on the Firefox code base, which integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features. Last November I took a look at an early Flock release, and found it to be interesting, if a little bit rough. The Flock folks have been hard at work, and the new Flock beta release looks solid enough to be a must for users who spend a great deal of time blogging, sharing pictures, or using services like del.icio.us.

Most of Flock’s functions are already available via Firefox extensions, but extensions carry a few problems. First of all, since they’re developed separately from Firefox, they tend to get outdated when the Mozilla folks update Firefox and the extension developers fall behind.

Second, you have to take the time to actually find the extensions to do all of the separate functions. The Flock developers have targeted a set of functions that Web users want and build them right in to the browser. As it turns out, this works out pretty well. NewsForge | Flock beta rocks