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Announcing Zurfer: Flickr Anywhere

What does it mean to have access to all the world’s images on the go, no matter where you are? If your mobile photo browser can know where you are, what would it show you? How would you keep in touch with your friends and discover interesting photos using your shiny mobile phone? How does all of this happen on a small screen with limited input mechanisms and a less-than-fast network?

Announcing Zurfer, the world’s first location-aware mobile photo browser. Zurfer tries to answer the hard questions above, but more importantly, we hope that Zurfer is easy to use and useful, intuitive and fun… in a word, playful. We also hope that you’ll waste lots of time zurfing photos on your phone. Don’t use it while crossing the street!

[Zurfer is yet another prototype that builds on the location capabilities of ZoneTag. If you do not have ZoneTag, that’s ok, Zurfer still works, but is a little less deliciously awesome than if you had ZoneTag… so get ZoneTag first if you can.]

Anyway, let’s go Zurfing!

(More about why we think the Flickr is the perfect location-based social app: later).