Flock: the social media browser

When you spend a large portion of your day online, you probably need a couple different web browsers for the different parts of your life. It was pretty embarrassing one time when I opened a web browser during a client meeting and it loaded up a page from the OkCupid dating site. Oops!

I solved this problem with a web browser called Flock. Built on top of Firefox (arguably the best browser), Flock adds different sidebars and integrates with social websites like Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, WordPress, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and many others. This makes it an excellent choice for doing tasks that are may not exactly be defined as “work.” I call it my screw-around browser.

Probably the most useful and simple features in Flock is the People Sidebar. This allows for you to see status updates from your friends in a stream in a sidebar. And it mixes all of the different networks into one stream, which can be pretty neat. See Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook status updates all in one stream.

So now I can open Firefox or Internet Explorer around clients and rest assured that they will not learn about my exploits as a single man with a Facebook addiction. And when I open anything other than Flock, I am less tempted to indulge in those distractions. Win-win.

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