You've got to check out this awesome presentation of this software called photosynth.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

To quote a passage on the page "Photosynth might utterly transform the way we manipulate and experience digital images."

I think you'll appreciate the power of what it can do with regards to imagery especially when you see what it does with images of Notre Dame stored on Flickr!

Dean

WOW! That was awesome!

I can't believe the whole book!

I watched this video a few weeks ago. It was just the most incredible thing I've ever seen computers do.

Cheers,
Nez

Looks amazing,

The world really is changing - the concepts in the video really explain the amazing place the world is becoming (very web 2.0 - community driven!)

Thanks Dean..

Michelle

Incredible technology - the processing power for this baby is awesome!

Bill

If you haven't yet, go check out the site where you can actually have a real look at the software:
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

It's pretty cool!

Cheers,
Nez

Just spent the last 10 minutes playing tourist through the collections on that site Nez and I'm hooked already!!

Bill

Man I'm EXCITED.

This is techie heaven.
Spatial related photos with spatial meta tags, MAGIC.
Super video technology WONDERFUL.
Marketing opportunities EVERYWHERE.

This thing will change the world as we know it.

Its the closest thing to a world wide mind. Spatial and contextual data as images. Just what GIS (geographic information systems) has been trying to do for the past 20 years but distributes world wide.

Just imaging the data mining that can be achieved. Short list generated from meta data and interpreted in seconds through human visual recognition.

Then once the computers are able to visually recognise, computer will have access to almost all human experience. The web will be a mega neural network challenging the human mind as the supreme image and spatial association processing computer on the planet.

Give them emotions and and we will have another intelligence on the planet.

Whoops I've been watching to many scifi movies.

Another amazing presentation which I think would certainly be useful for market research:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/144

Dean

Thanks Dean, that was another mind blowing talk..

I have just finished "playing" with universe and we feel fine..

Back to work !

Michelle