That’s a terrible alliteration, I know.  But I’m excited, because…

…I’m lucky enough to be among those few beta testers invited by the Flock team, and I must say that this has such potential to change the way we browse.

A few notes on my initial experience:  When I first opened the browser, it asked me to import my favorites.  Typical, right?  Wrong.  It’s fully integrated into del.icio.us, the social bookmarks manager, and it’s seamless.  After entering my del.icio.us account information, Flock automatically synced with my account and imported my online bookmarks.

But wait, there’s more!  Flock integrates blog publishing directly into the browser interface via a pop-up window.  This would eliminate the need for bookmarklets.  the process was very simple: I typed in my blog address, Flock detected it and I supplied my username and password.  Easy as cake. 

The publishing aspect is particularly useful because you can drag and drop almost any type of content into it while you’re browsing.  It also has a “topbar,” where you can open up your Flickr photostream and drop in photos.  You can also tag your posts and apply WYSIWYG formatting on the fly. 

I am, in fact, writing this post with Flock’s built-in blog functionality.  It’s really easy and completely eliminates the need for, like I said, a bookmarklet or even logging into your blog’s admin.

So far, Flock gets a thumbs-up.  The browsing is even faster than Firefox and it’s got well-designed features. 

I’ll keep you posted.

Go get Flock for yourself!