Infinite zoom, and rebuilding the world from a zillion little pieces – a demo you have to see!
June 6th, 2007 by David Weinberger
Intensely cool demo of PhotoSynth, at TED, shown in a 9 min video. It begins with an infinite zoom that could change the model of how we get more info from linking to a new page to just looking closer at the page.And then he shows how we could reconstruct “every interesting part of the earth” using random Flickr photos by linking them together automatically. And linking together the other information associated with it.
Mind-blowing. And an incredible tool for deriving meaning from the miscellaneous. (Thanks to Erick for the link.) [Tags: photosynth flickr photos metadata ted everything_is_miscellaneous ]
