http://spoken.phrasewise.com/articles/2007/06/14/social-cameras-and-photosynth en-us 40 Daniel Berlinger :: helpless :: speechless :: breathless <p>At the TED conference, <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129">a holy cow technology demo video</a> for <a href="http://labs.live.com/photosynth/">Photosynth</a>. Ridiculously awesome technology. Enjoyed the <a href="http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx">Seadragon </a>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.</p> <p>Today, <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/14/newIdeaSocialCameras.html">Dave talks about social cameras</a> 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.</p> <p>Clearly, large searchable photo collections are in incredibly powerful tool, and social ones like flickr will become awesomely powerful tools.</p> <p>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?)</p> <p>When people ask what's the use of all the cycles we have on our desktops I see stuff like this.</p> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:51:00 +0000 urn:uuid:4f8e2bbc-9098-40ca-91e6-093a84f0eb87 Daniel http://spoken.phrasewise.com/articles/2007/06/14/social-cameras-and-photosynth news design tech advocacy http://spoken.phrasewise.com/articles/trackback/603