Text blog post from inside Word 2007 Beta 2

This is a blog post that I’m writing inside MS Word 2007.

What makes Flock click? (and what else could)

It's been about 4 days since I installed Flock on my work and home PCs. Having gone through the very ambitious looking list of features in advance, I thought the first impression was somewhat dull. But as I started using it more and more, that feeling turned to a big WOW!

Flock packs one hell of a punch in the features department, especially for a first release. For me, it touches the right spots and just clicks! So here's my list of what works for me in this release of Flock, and what I think will make it work more in future versions...

What does:
- Del.icio.us integration - Just the thing I've wanted Firefox to do since the day I registered on del.icio.us.
- Visual indication of whether a page is bookmarked - The star turning orange when I navigate to a bookmarked page is a masterstroke (one of those why-didn-anyone-think-of-this-before things)
- Top bar - I somehow just prefer that position to a sidebar. And it works perfectly for the two applications it currently serves.
- Built-in blogging - The reason I started blogging!
- History and bookmark integration in the search bar - Seriously powerful. Something I can't live without already. Also something that makes Firefox not look all that powerful anymore.

What could:
- Bug(and error)-free blogging (especially with blogger) - Publishing posts to my blogger account returns errors 90% of the time!
- Better tag-based browsing of bookmarks - Browsing bookmarks inside the browser currently just plain sucks. I actually prefer del.icio.us (and that after calling it a non-user-friendly website) for now.
- Seamless compatibility with Firefox extensions - Flocker does a decent job for now, but I don't want to download xpi files every time I need an extension.

Bottomline, though, is that Flock rocks. So much so that I see it actually replacing Firefox as my browser of choice very very soon!

MyPIMP

MyPIMP - My Personal Information Management Portal

Initially I thought this would be just another one in a crowd of online caledars, but a few minutes with the application and I was hooked. MyPimp provides the best set of tools I've seen in an online information management application and adds decent usability as a bonus. Well worth my personal toolbar.