I don’t remember exactly when I signed up for the beta of Flipboard’s Surf “social web browser”—probably shortly after blogging about it here—but my invite came in, and I finally installed the beta yesterday to give it a look. This isn’t a proper review so much as a few off-the-cuff thoughts based on a few minutes of fiddling around but those thoughts are mixed. When I first linkblogged about Surf, I said that I wanted to see more apps like this, and trying out the app only reinforces that impression.

I don’t see myself pivoting away from Reeder, but this looks interesting, and I want to see more of this kind of app out there.