What the flock?

One of the great things about the open-source movement—besides giving us free software, like a full-fledged operating system for PCs, an Office Suite of productivity applications and an email client that syncs with Exchange servers—is that other programmers can use the code for free themselves to splinter off new and interesting side-projects.

One such splinter group is the Flock organization. They took my all-time favorite browser, Firefox, and used it as the basis for a social networking, web powerhouse browser called, Flock.

Flock does it all: blogging, photo-sharing w/Flickr, monitoring social networks like Facebook and YouTube, handling RSS feeds, as well as  adding links to your bookmarks and Del.icio.us, simultaneously.

It takes awhile to get used to the set-up, but if you spend some time figuring it out, you'll be impressed with all the crap you can do within it. Hey, I even wrote this post with it. Pretty sweet.