Paul Miller caught me on the Gillmor Gang and said it’s a great podcast. I think it’s funny how Steve Gillmor calls me the attention bunny. It was a fun discussion, but one where I was challenged a lot by the panel. Intellectually Jon Udell has at least 40  IQ points on me and  the rest of them are smarter than me too. It’s always fun to try to stay up with those guys.

I’ve been playing with Flock for blogging purposes lately. It’s a new browser based on Firefox. I’m interested in it because of the driving force that all the big Web businesses like Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Google, and many of the smaller sites too, like Craig’s List, are focused on: user generated content. It’s interesting, there’s some areas where it just isn’t as nice as IE (the font in the editor on my monitor is ultra tiny, for instance, gotta figure out how to change that) but I love the drag and drop editing of blog posts (I just did that on the previous eBay Stores post) but overall I like it better — the integration to Del.icio.us and Flickr and drag-and-drop blogging is real nice.

I wonder if this will be a trend of seeing specialized browsers be built for unique purposes? Or, will the world just stick with Firefox and IE and add components onto those? I wonder what the browser of 2007 will look like?

Update: One thing I notice is that my workflow has to change if I’m going to keep using Flock. With IE I just Shift-Click on a link and open a new instance of the browser. That’s one reason I never got too enthralled with tab browsing.

But when I do that in Flock my Web performance goes WAY down. I like separate Windows on a high res screen. But I’m weird, so you can ignore me. 🙂

eBay Stores just enabled RSS so you can now subscribe to a feed of the newest items listed in that store. PetriFinds is one of the stores that has turned on the feature already, and you can see the RSS link at the bottom of the store page. Here is the RSS feed link. eBay has offered RSS Feeds on the community boards and system announcements for a while, but this is the first time that eBay has offered feeds on the eBay Platform (by that I mean, feeds that involve items listed on eBay). Alan Lewis: RSS in eBay Stores, Baby