A few months ago I experimented with Greasemonkey, a set of browser extensions which allows anyone with rudimentary web development skills to remix websites. My example Greasemonkey script ran a single query against Yahoo Personals and Match and listed the results side by side.
After a while, I started thinking about a browser based on Mozilla that was tuned up with extensions and helper apps which facilitated managing multiple dating site accounts and especially profiles. A first step towards integrated profiles and cross-site subscriptions. Why wait for dating sites to federate when we can do the same thing in the browser?
Along comes Flock, which promises to be a “social browser”. Out in October, I can’t wait to see what kind of features and API it includes. I’m thinking that Flock will do most of the foundation building and someone can come along and build out the dating site browsing features.
[tags: flock]
