Posted by Daniel Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:51:00 GMT

At the TED conference, a holy cow technology demo video for Photosynth. Ridiculously awesome technology. Enjoyed the Seadragon underpinning ideas as well. In short, architectural rendering can be generated from a database of source pictures. Something like Notre Dame which is constantly photographed can be stitched together. Just go watch the video. Crazy good stuff.

Today, Dave talks about social cameras which seems to dovetail nicely. I'd love to stitch together event pictures so that you can see the whole instead of just my perspective, including the case he discusses.

Clearly, large searchable photo collections are in incredibly powerful tool, and social ones like flickr will become awesomely powerful tools.

The first thing that leaps to mind are sports events where ten of thousands of photos are taken or historical event recreation. (Imagine the power of this tool applied to a cataclysm such as 9/11?)

When people ask what's the use of all the cycles we have on our desktops I see stuff like this.