So, today, I set up Flock on my laptop. I couldn’t set it up on my main PC, because my main PC is still running Windows NT 4.0 which Flock won’t run on. Yeah, someday, I’ll get around to an upgrade.

I created a post using flock. Works pretty much the same way that Flickr does. No biggie there. Then, I enabled it to communicate with del.icio.us for sharing bookmarks. That looks pretty cool. Perhaps I’ll play with that a little more.

It would be nice if it would also talk with Bloglines. I’ve been using Bloglines more than del.icio.us these days since Bloglines has a nice way of letting me know when entries have been updated that I don’t see in del.icio.us.

Perhaps I should write a little program that will take an OPML file from Bloglines and update my del.icio.us site. Then there is the issue of how to tie Stumble Upon in. For that matter, tying into Google bookmarks and a history of Google Searches would be pretty cool too. Maybe even being able to see other people’s searches or bookmarks if they would share them. Perhaps all of this will come in a future release of Flock.

I’ve used Flock to look at my pictures on Flickr and to look at my blog.

The other interesting thing that I played with recently is Ning. From their website, they say “Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.
Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people.”. Essentially, you get a sandbox where you can copy some PHP code and modify it to create applications. So far there isn’t anything really exciting there that I can see. However, when you tie it into some of these other tools emerging, someone is bound to create something interesting.

If you want to get a view of where I am in all of this, here are:
My del.icio.us tags
My Bloglines subscriptions
My Flickr photos
My StumbleUpon info
My first test with ning