Potpourri IV
Oct 5th, 2007 by ShaunO
Well today, or more precisely what’s left of it in the US, the 4th of October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Neat… why haven’t we gone to Mars yet?
Off to TechCrunch40 (thanks to ‘mac’ for his observations) where one of the things which caught my eye was that there were a number of ‘newbies’ to the market in identity management, including the management of the ‘look’ of your online identity – aka an avatar (for the web I suppose) – including befunky, & mEgo.
As a side thought – OpenID seems to be gathering a bit of momentum now…
Another ‘theme’ which showed in TechCrunch40 was client, or server side, organisation tools including: WIXI, app2you, Orgoo, and the like, which are designed to help you manage the myriad of electronic stuff & communications you are now ‘collecting’ either on-line or locally.
I’m having a ‘play’ with a client side tool (which I think I looked at some time back) called Flock – essentially a souped up web-browser that really understands stuff like favourites, feeds, media streams, Flickr, del.icio.us, Magnolia, blogs (your own, or Typepad, WordPress et al) etc… It’s based on the Mozilla engine so lots of Firefox like features have flowed through like tabbed browsing…
Its pretty neat, and using its web clipboard, and blog authoring tools, this post was authored using Flock. Of course, there has to be a down-side – and that, at the moment, is I can’t install AdBlock into Flock 0.9.1.2… got so use to being without those banner ads…
[Update: 8Oct07] Well, not so good news. Flock has crashed and burned after a couple of days. Won’t start, instead choosing to throw the dreaded Windoze “application has caused an unexpected error”. I gather from the forums this is not an uncommon problem after a machine crash. Blowing ones profile away seems to fix the problem but, given all setups, accounts, feeds, media etc are stored there, this is hardly an acceptable solution… ah, the joys of beta software :)
[Update: 10Oct07] Cool, Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 plug-in is now OK with Flock
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