Literal.Network.Browsing

You know how there were explorers’ guilds back in the time of Columbus and such? (I don’t know actually, I’m just to lazy to Wikipedia it) Well that same idea is coming back to the internet. I for one know the net is chock full of zany and exotic information in the forms of pictures, video, audio and text. Well one company decided to make a social network out of “stumbling” upon websites. StumbleUpon adds a parasitic bar to Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers and is making finding random crap on the internet a social phenomenon. Boasting over 4 million members I would have to say the idea is working rather well.

But this isn’t the first idea to implement the social networking into a browser. Flock, is an open source browser which allows popular networking features from major sites such as Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accessible without even opening a web page. You can share files with members and keep up with them with the built on newsfeed, so you always know what’s going on.

They are both free and ad-free as far as I know so check them out. Its worth a try and I think it’s an interesting exploration to see social internetworking come to the browser front.