Aujourd’hui c’est la sortie de la preview de Flock un navigateur multi-plateformes qui permet entre autre d’éditer son blog depuis le navigateur ou de partager ses bookmark via un compte delicious.

Voici la liste des nouveautés.

Favorites & History Search

1. The Star button

   Out with bookmarks, in with Flock Favorites.

   They’re stored online, and they’re shared, searchable, and tagged.
   Simply click the Star in the URL bar and you’ve flagged a page. You can
   easily retrieve it later. The Star turns orange (and is orange the next
   time you visit the page, to remind you that this is one of your
   favorites).

   Example:

   1. Go
      to del.icio.us and get an account if you don’t have one. Then start
      Flock, visit a web page, and click the Star button. You’re done. No
      need to herd your favorites into folders and manage them.
   2. When you see the “Share your favorites online?” prompt, say yes, and enter your Delicious user name and password.

2. Tagging

   You can add tags to Favorites by simply clicking the little arrow next
   to the Star icon. Or, if you like to tag, Open the Flock menu, choose
   Preferences, and go to the Web Services section. Activate the “Clicking
   Star Performs Star and Tag” option. You can also bring up the tagging
   dialog by clicking CTRL-D (Windows).

   Example:

   1. Go to an interesting web site
   2. Click
      the little arrow next to the Star, and select Star and Tag This Page.
      To add multiple tags, separate them with commas, the enter key, or
      quotes.

3. Favorites Manager

   The Favorites Manager is a simple way to organize and view your Favorites and a feed reader (see below).

   Example:

   1. Click the button with the three stars
   2. You can organize Favorites into collections, or by tagging them. Use the tabs to switch between these two views
   3. Click the + button in the lower left corner to create a new collection

4. History Search

   Flock comes with the open source Clucene search engine built in. Each
   time you visit a web page, it indexes all the content on that page so
   you can easily retrace your steps later. Pages you’ve starred as
   Favorites float to the top when you do a History Search. History Search
   is stored locally for privacy. For more privacy, you can wipe it out
   using the Clear Private Data command.

   Example:

   1. Visit some interesting web pages, such as Yahoo News.
   2. Start typing a few letters of a search query (for example “tech”) into the search box.
   3. After
      you type a few queries, a menu appears showing you matching results
      from your browser history and pages you have starred. You can use the
      keyboard to navigate through the menu.
   4. When you press Enter, a normal web query is done using the search engine you have chosen.

5. Most Frequently Visited / Most Recently Added

   Flock keeps track of which web pages you visit most frequently.

   Example:

   1. Use the browser for a few days.
   2. Open the Favorites menu and choose Recent Favorites or Frequently Visited Sites.

6. Multiple favorites toolbars

   With Flock, you can have multiple Favorites toolbars and switch back and forth between them.

   Example:

   1. Create a few Collections in the Favorites Manager.
   2. In
      the right corner of the Favorites toolbar, you’ll see a flyout
      selector. Click it to choose a different Collection. Voila! Your choice
      becomes your current Favorites toolbar.

Feeds

1. Feed discovery

   Just like Firefox, Flock puts an icon in the URL bar when a site has
   one or more feeds. In Flock, you can click that icon to get an feed
   view of the page.

   Example:

   1. Go to the Flock home page.
   2. Click the orange feed button in the URL bar.

2. Feed caching

   When you star a web page that has a feed, the feed is cached and updated every hour.

   Example:

   1. Go to the New York Times home page.
   2. Click the Star button to mark that page as one of your Favorites.
   3. Click the button with three stars to open the Favorites Manager.
   4. Find
      the New York Times entry. You’ll see a little expander icon next to
      that entry. Click that icon to see the feeds for that Favorite.
   5. Click the feed icon to get the feed view.

3. On the Fly Aggregation

   Flock automatically creates an aggregated view for all of your
   collections. If you create a collection of news sites that you visit
   every day, you can see an aggregated view of all your news site on one
   page.

   Example:

   1. Create a new collection called News.
   2. Add several of your favorite news sites that have feeds (nytimes.com, slashdot.org, news.com etc.).
   3. Click the feed button next to your News collection in the Favorites Manager’s sidebar. You’ll see an aggregated page.

Blogging

1. With Flock, blogging is a fully integrated part of the Web. Flock
   includes a blog editor that works with WordPress (and the new
   WordPress.com hosted service), Movable Type and Typepad (and shortly
   also Live Journal) and Blogger. Other blogging platforms have not been
   tested.

   Example:

   1. Click the Blog icon (that looks like a feather pen).
   2. Set
      up your blog account (you can manage your accounts, including setting
      up additional blog accounts, from the Blogs section in your Flock
      Preferences).
   3. Create a simple blog post using our blog editor and click Publish.

2. Blog This!

   You can easily blog interesting web content with Flock, in just a few clicks.

   Example:

   1. Highlight a passage on a web page that you would like to blog about.
   2. Right-click that selection and choose Blog This.
   3. The
      blog editor opens with that selection already inserted. Not only that,
      the selection is properly formatted as a Blockquote and appropriate
      citation is included.

   Other ways to Blog This:

   1. Open the View menu and choose Topbars and then Blog Topbar.
   2. Highlight a text passage and drag it to the box labeled “Drag stuff to blog it!”

   Or you can use the Shelf (see The Shelf, below).

3. Flickr topbar

   With Flock, blogging Flickr pictures is easy. You can drag and drop
   pictures from our integrated Flickr topbar right into your blog post.

   Example:

   1. Click the Blog Editor button (that looks like a feather pen).
   2. Click the Topbar icon and select the Flickr topbar.
   3. Type your Flickr user name and click Get Photos.
   4. Drag your pictures into your blog post.

4. The Shelf

   The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later.

   Example:

   1. Open the Tools menu and choose Shelf.
   2. Drag interesting URLs, pictures or text snippets from any web page onto the shelf.
   3. Click the Blog Editor icon (that looks like a feather pen).
   4. Drag items from the Shelf into your blog post.

   Note:

   • When you drag text snippets, Shelf items are automatically formatted as Blockquotes and citations are added.
   • The Shelf is only for web content. You can’t use it to upload items, or drop content from your computer onto it.