Blaise Aguera y Arcas displayed Seadragon at the TED Conference. You can watch the talk below. There are some great take aways from this including the demo of Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs.
One of the things that struck me about this after hearing him speak (I'd already seen a demo of Photosynth last year) was about the 5 min mark where he pulls the images from Flickr. Tie this in with the social tagging that is becoming abundant, the Ambient Findability that Peter Morville is envisioning, semacodes or qr codes and microformats you can start to see the way that content and the web in general will be heading in the next few years.
Though the true semantic web is a long way off (if it ever comes), the building blocks are starting to fall into place for us to play around with.
Accessing information through any device, anywhere and then being able to dive in, manipulate it and create something new - it truly is an exciting prospect.
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