Flock Out

The Flock preview is out and I love it. The good folks at WordPress.com are saying “it’s like Firefox with goodies.” I’m saying it’s a browser built for Web 2.0.

tags: web2.0, browser, firefox, flock, goodies, web 2.0, web 20, web browser, web20

Simple Bookmarklet Demo

Bookmarklets are interesting little bits of JavaScript stored as bookmarks. They’ve been around since about 1998 (earlier?), but I’ve never bothered to write one.
Here are a few examples:

This sort of creates a bookmark
Alexa Snapshot
Wayback

tags: bookmark, bookmarklet, browser, javascript, web, web browser

Alt Browser

Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features.
Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new <blink> .

tags: alternate browser, blink, browser, browser development, mac, webkit