Smule (http://www.smule.com), the acclaimed developer of interactive sonic applications for the iPhone, never rests. Fresh from MacWorld, Smule today released an update for Zephyr, an application where you write messages with snow on your screen and then anonymously release them to the virtual world. These messages ultimately appear on the screens of iPhone users across the globe.

The update enhances the original app by allowing users to track their own messages, reply directly to messages they receive and to personalize how they view messages. Since its launch in December, Zephyr has dispatched 88,390 unique drawings / messages. The first message to traverse the globe was sent on December 29th and took approximately 5 ½ hours to do so. Another message has “traveled” the longest, circling the world approx 14.6 times in terms of absolute distance.
Like Smule’s award-winning Ocarina and its Sonic Lighter, Zephyr is built with the ChucK audio programming language developed by Dr. Ge Wang, Smule’s chief technology officer and co-founder.
In other Smule news, their “This Contest Blows” Contest, a month-long competition to find the most “Smulean” Ocarina performance posted on YouTube, is coming to an end and 10 winners, each receiving $1,000, will be announced tonight, Monday, January 12 at 7:00 PM PST by The Mule on his live Ustream TV broadcast: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/smule.