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sorry for the very low output on this blog lately, very much going on jobwise. hold tight for some news during october, mainly a new version of phptube (I’m planning to include support for deleting files from youtube) and a relaunch of the gapingvoid facebook-app (suggestions welcome).

oh, and thx to Evan from Flock, who has sent over a very nice package of Flockstar-schwag. appreciated! you might wanna try out the current beta of the social browser or sign-up for the soon-to come 1.0 beta-release (more on Flock here).

Gecko-based web-browser Flock (Windows and Mac OS-binaries available) has been upgraded to version 0.9 earlier this week. 0.9 features even stronger integration with social web-services and blogging-tools than its predecessor - Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube, del.icio.us are supported out of the box, as well as most hosted & self-hosted blogging-tools. besides these well-known qualities, the Flock-team added numerous improvements to the user-interface. (more…)

as mike arrington announcend earlier, first public beta (v0.7) of firefox-based browser flock was released today. for it’s seamless integration of several webservices, flock is supposed to be the “web 2.0″-browser of choice:

• flock fetches images of flickr- and photobucket-accounts, and furthermore allows drag&drop of images into html-areas (f.e. comment-boxes on blogs, user-profiles)
• social-bookmark-services delicious and Shadows are fully integrated into the browser, replacing local bookmarks
• flock’s powerful cut&paste clipboard simplifies blogging with Blogger, MoveableType, Wordpress and other tools.
• RSS-reader included

agreed, most of these features are available as firefox-extensions in some way, but Flock stands out with it’s polished userinterface and is definitely worth a try for everyone using at least two of these webservices.