Cooliris

App Name: Cooliris
Developer: Cooliris, Inc.
Category: Entertainment

Here’s one I wasn’t expecting.  In its original incarnation, Cooliris is a plugin for Firefox that lets you browse images across the web from Google Image Search, Flickr, and others, using a 3D “image wall” you can scroll through, tap on to view images, and even visit the originating pages.  It has recently introduced embedded ads in the form of images ads, movie trailers and other video ads, so it’s clearly found its business model — but it’s still pretty cool. It lets you search using keywords or has a “discover” mode that’ll pick images from a list of topics.

Now they’ve gone and made a native standalone iPhone version, and I have to say, it’s pretty damn, uh……

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