In the first screenshot, you can see that Flock will detect RSS feeds, and will give you the option to view the feed with the click of a button.  The feed view is simple to use, and allows you to view (and expand and collapse) posts by date. Pressing the "switch to webview" button returns you to the webpage.

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In the second screenshot, you'll notice the star button.  It is basically like adding a bookmark (which Flock calls favorites), and you will see the link appear in the Favorites Manager.  In the Favorites Manager, you have two ways of oraganizing your favorites: you can sort your favorites by adding tags to them (which will be automatically synced to your del.icio.us account if you have one), or you can make collections (categories) and store your favorites in them.  The collections are especially interesting because Flock will create an aggregate RSS feed for each of the collections, so you could for example view all of your subscribed tech blogs on one page.

There's a lot going on in the third screenshot.  First of all, the right sidebar is named the Shelf, which allows you to drag images, links, and text from a webpage and drop it in the Shelf.  You can then drag content from the Shelf into the blog editor to compose a post.  Flock will save anything stored in the Shelf from session to session.  In the blog editor, after you provide your blog address and username and password, you can start blogging away.  The blog editor includes everything you'd expect it to have, and more, including the ability to add Technorati tags and Flickr photos to your posts.




There are a few downsides to using Flock.  As Flock is still in the early stages of development, there are still many bugs.  Also, the extension library is extremely limited, so Firefox users will not be impressed with the customization features of Flock.  So far there is no way to import bookmarks from another browser.  As of now, it would not make sense to use Flock as your primary browser, but in time, I can easily see this happening.  You can try Flock for yourself here.