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June 06, 2007

Zoom 10000000.0

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 current page.

And then he shows how we could reconstruct "every interesting part of the earth" using random Flickr photos linked together automatically. And linking together the other information associated with them.

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 ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 6, 2007 06:01 PM

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It seems to me that there ought to be a link in this post, but there's not :-)

Posted by: Seth Wagoner | June 7, 2007 02:23 AM

D'oh There is now, Thanks.

Posted by: David Weinberger | June 7, 2007 04:52 AM

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