Zurfer Solicitation
I’ve been a big fan of Zurfer from YRB. It’s a low cost way of passively staying in touch with my Flickr friends through visuals on my mobile. Now that school is over and everyone has dispersed, it’s a nice way of seeing where people are in their lives through the Flickr photos they decide to make public. Although my cell data connection is pretty bad, Zurfer is quick enough that I get some good use out of it. I know writing an application like that can be tough since I tried to do something similar earlier this year. I also use Zurfer to annotate stories I tell people in RL. Sometimes a really good story has an accompanying photo for it on Flickr.
I logged into Zurfer yesterday and found myself solicited for user feedback via a temporary Zurfer channel and dummy images (see image). I thought this was a fun and unobtrusive way of asking users for feedback via the core mechanisms of the application. Usually I have a very low threshold for solicitation but the request came to me through the interface that I am using daily. I couldn’t help but say yes.
