Life seemed so simple when everybody was on MySpace…and nothing else. Now, keeping track of all the different social networking sites one’s a part of can get a bit frustrating. Fortunately, someone came up with a solution. There’s now a “social Web browser” based on Mozilla, the same architecture as Firefox – called Flock. I’d heard a little about it over the last few months, and finally decided to try it out after reading a review in the April 2008 issue of MacWorld. (And, yes – there is both Mac & WIndows versions!). What a concept – a way to easily keep up with not only my social networking accounts, but also YouTube, Digg, del.icio.us, keep my blog updated – all without loosing my mind!

To quote the article – “Billed as a ‘social Web browser,’ Flock 1.0.3 makes it easy to track blogs and social networks, and to create your own content. You can enter lon-in info for Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and common blogging services. That done, you can click on the browser’s Blog option to launch a pop-up window pre-configured with your blog’s categories and posting options, and then enter text. A panel on the left lets you scan RSS feeds, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, or Flickr comments.:

The only social networking site not support is, surprisingly, MySpace. Acccording to Flock’s website:

Where is MySpace integration for People?

No, we haven’t been living in a small, dark cave without internet access for 6 years. We are aware that MySpace is one of the largest social networks around, and we, like you, would like to see it integrated into Flock’s People sidebar.

Until early 2008, MySpace had no developer platform available with which to build quality Flock integration. We’re pleased to have been given access to this platform when it launched and have been working to build MySpace into Flock. We previewed an early build of it at MySpace’s Developer Platform launch.

The skinny: MySpace integration in Flock will arrive in 2008.

I’ve been using Flock for about two weeks now – and it has greatly simplified keeping up with what used to be a wild mix of different sites – and I definitely recommend the free download! (And, since it’s based on Mozilla – you can also use it as your regular browser as well!)

Because I just realized that I haven’t updated this stupid thing in almost a year! That seems to be the downside of these things – keeping up with them!

But, in the interest of keeping up with this, I’ve installed Flock. Go check it out at www.flock.com. Basically, it’s a web browser designed for social networking & blogging. Based on Mozilla (same stuff Firefox is built out of) – it nicely consolidates your social networking accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, and YouTube, along with the blogs you’re part of, Gmail and Yahoo mail, and other stuff I haven’t figured out yet.

Considering I’ve only just installed this 30 minutes ago, I haven’t figured everything out yet – but given that in 30 minutes I finally have gotten off my ass using Flock and updated my blog for the first time in months – well, that should give you an idea of how well this works!

I just realized it’s been over 2 months since I last updated this blog. Funny thing is – I visit plenty of other blogs, and always wonder why either you see someone with way too much time on their hands, posting constant updates. Or, it’s being maintained by someone that obviously had the best of intentions, but in reality – posted two or three times, then left it by the wayside.In reality – keeping these things updated means you constantly have something of value to say. That, or you just want to post for the sake of posting.

Personally, I’d prefer that my postings be of value.But, it seems to be inevitable, like death and taxes, that you run out of things to say for the moment. So, you leave postings similar to…well…this one.

So, for those that might actually visit this blog…let’s just say “Happy Holidays”…and sorry for the lack of regular postings…but that’s my holiday gift – less crap to wade through for those that visit here!