Comments on: How to build a social media cockpit with Firefox

By: darabell

darabell — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:10:24 +0000

Great again hope lots people taking advantage of a social media maven like you.
DaraBell

By: darabell

darabell — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:10:24 +0000

Great again hope lots people taking advantage of a social media maven like you.
DaraBell

By: markwjohnson

markwjohnson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:56:35 +0000

Hi John,

Thanks for that feedback. I have found that it is a memory hog as well but I
alleviated alot of that by going to their site and doing the under the hood
tune ups they recommend. I am running Evernote on my version of Flock but I
don't use it often as I seem to have fallen in love with
SecondBrain>.
Heard of it?

I also use WordPress to blog and pushing content in Flock to the Blog editor
is flawless. As you can see from below I don't work for them, never even
talked to anyone at Flock, just an evangelist.

I wish it wasn't as buggy as it is and I use Google Chrome to search and do
research (even though I have 12 open now with Flock)
to help hold down on the buggy flock issues. It tends to freeze up for 30
seconds at a time maybe three or four times a day.

I have never had to ask for support from them but have noticed that their
Blog is dated and they don't seem to be pushing much out there in the Social
Media. Where you would think they would thrive with the product they have.

Take care,
Mark

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By: johnhaydon

johnhaydon — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:42:08 +0000

Mark – After I received your comment, I went and downloaded Flock and loved it – initially. After giving Flock a good go – for about two weeks – I went back to Firefox.

Why? Although it has some great features that make it potentially more social than FF, many of my favorite FireFox add-ons don't work in Flock (TwitThat, Posterous, Evernote). Plus it seemed to be a serious memory hog. But what made me ultimately go back to Firefox was when I found so many unanswered support questions. Flock might be great for some people, but not for what I wanted to use it for. Thanks, Mark.

By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:03:06 +0000

Mark – I guess you could just Flock if that’s working for you. It all depends upon one’s goals.

By: markwjohnson

markwjohnson — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:17:08 +0000

Why not just download Flock which is the Social Media browser built on Firefox technology?

By: johnhaydon

johnhaydon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:55:20 +0000

John – TwitThat no longer requires an intro.

By: johneich

johneich — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:06:56 +0000

Nice article, John. There's a new Tweet-from-the-page item I just adore, called "TBuzz" (http://tbuzz.arc90.com/) - it's a simple bookmark on your bar, which you just click on any page and it'll access your Twitter acc't, open up a little dialog, search for any tweets already pointing to the page (in a few seconds), insert a shortened link, show you the letter count, and leave space for your comment! If you select text on the page before you hit the bookmark, it'll also insert that text in quotes. Just fabulous.

I used to use TwitThat, but the interface is just too clunky and confining (it mandates intro text...why??). Check out Tbuzz to compare the experience!

By: johnhaydon

johnhaydon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:25:57 +0000

Tweecious I recently ditched because it pulled so much junk into my Delicious account (which I use mainly to store research material and other articles).

By: Ange Recchia

Ange Recchia — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:17:21 +0000

Hi John, this is a terrific list which I too recommend! The only one I'm missing is Tweecious. I love the idea of automatic posting to Delicious and was using @Twitchboard but their service seems to have stopped. Glad I read your post!