Seadragon (the underlying technology): “It’s an environment in which you can, either locally or remotely, interact with immense amounts of visual data.”
Photosynth (the product): “So what this is really doing is, discovering, it’s creating hyperlinks, if you will, between images. And it’s doing that based on the content of the images. And that’s really exciting when you think about the richness of the semantic images that a lot of those images have” [like the text appearing alongside an image on a webpage, content which then becomes linked to any images found to be related visually]
See the full talk by Baise Agüera y Arcas (at TED2007). (video is 9:27 long and worth every second!)
EDIT: OH, wtF!? I went to try out the web demo and I get THIS:
Windows XP SP2 and Vista Only
The Photosynth technology preview runs only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.
In the 10 years since the first site known as a “weblog” went online, the blog has matured from a geek niche to the internet’s dominant publishing paradigm.
Blogs have come a long way since Dec. 17, 1997, when Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet wanderings. In the decade hence, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times.
“It’s the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented,” said Jeff Jarvis, news blogger, media pundit and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “The people have a voice they didn’t have before.”
In other words, by eliminating the costs of inventory and allowing unlimited choice over the Internet, how niche can a product get and still be economic to produce and sell? The answer is you can now go a lot further down that curve.And because there is now economic life further down the curve, niche products can turn into nichebusters and travel up the curve more easily than in the past.
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