Hey Flockstars,

I’m pleased as punch to announce the release of the Flockstars extension. Ever-creative Flockstar Tony Farndon (tones) created this extension to connect Flockstars across the globe even further. Erwan and I gave it a few test runs and I'm really excited to let you guys at it. So here we go:

You remember those spread Flock buttons? Of course you do, you use them every day to promote your favorite browser. The Flockstars Extension upgrades these buttons to something much more powerful.

For people who aren’t yet using Flock, these buttons redirect them to Flock.com, just as the old ones did. But for Flock users (with the extension), these buttons activate a Flockstar icon in the address bar that connects you to their online life.

When moused over by Flock users, a short description pops up (as seen below).


When clicked, the Flockstars icon opens a list of said Flockstar's websites: Flickr, Photobucket, MySpace, Websites, Email, etc. Click their Flickr account and their photos load in the media bar, click their email and your email program opens. You can even click their Skype username and call them!


This is a tremendous new way to link you Flockstars together, and even more of a reason to get your friends to try Flock.

You can download and find out more about this extension on Tones' site and create your own Flockstar button here. You will need to install the extension as well as embed the button code on your page to see your Flockstar icon.

After installing, scope this extension out in action on these pages:

http://spatialviews.com/
http://www.myspace.com/flockbrowser
http://www.myspace.com/evan_hamilton
http://www.myspace.com/monstersarenotmyths
http://ghismo.blogspot.com/

This should work with Cardinal, and I’ve had success using it on 0.7.10. Cormorant is ever-changing and not a good bet for any extension at the moment.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks again to Tony for putting this together. Awesome work.
Set yourselves up with a Flockstars button and comment with the URL so we can see this extension in action!

Flock on,
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com