I just uh…”stumbled across” a copy of the Flock developer preview, and having messed around with it a little bit I can say for sure: it’s pretty cool.

Click the screen shot above for a bigger view. I really like the blogging features, and I can’t wait until they all work properly so I can test them more thoroughly, but this is very promising! It definitely makes the whole process very easy and intuitive, and it works just fine with Movable Type 3.2 for me, even though the site said it wouldn’t.

Most of my bookmarks aren’t things that anyone else would find interesting, or they’re work-related and thus not eligible for sharing, so the favorites-sharing features don’t really interest me, and I haven’t tried them.

I can vouch for the rest though. They took Firefox and prettied it up while adding some advanced functionality that isn’t really available via extensions or plugins at the moment, and thus is extremely valuable to those who have a blog or desire some of the community-oriented features that are present here. I’ll put some more screen shots up later on for anyone who is interested.

i can’t muster the energy to write a post around here for 4 months, but I can manage enough for a 6 hour redesign bender. maybe it will help motivate me to post an entry occasionally. gmail invites still available, btw. see below.

i’ve been trying to give these away all morning without even an iota of success, so just as an expirement let’s see how this sits with the search engines. 6 gmail invites up for grabs. leave a comment, if nothing you type rubs me the wrong way i’ll send you one. forgetting to leave your email in the first comment = definitely wont get one. (edit) scratch that, these things are going so slowly that even if you offend me i’ll send one. i just want that little red link gone from my inbox. (/edit)