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Photosynth, innovative technology by … Microsoft?

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I can’t even tell you how much it kills to me to say this, but Microsoft has been acquiring and developing some pretty interesting technology recently. Click the photo above to watch a video presentation on Photosynth, a new way of navigating and collating visual data.

Put this together with MS surface computing, and I think it just might be possible that the Blue Monster will define the next epoch of computing. Just maybe.

Discussion

8 comments for “Photosynth, innovative technology by … Microsoft?”

  1. That’s fairly mind-boggling.

  2. Ah, but one must have either Windows or Vista to take the sample for a spin on the Photosynth site.

    Leave not thy Mac.

  3. First of all, WOW.

    Second, I love the ice cream cone T-shirt.

    This is a loose quote (5:30): “What the point here really is is that we can do things with the social environment… taking data from the entire collective memory and link all of that together to create something emergent that is greater than the sum of its parts…”

    Is there a word limit to taglines?

  4. It smacks a bit of The Borg though, does it not?

  5. I don’t know … it’s not too worrying to me. New technology always carries the possibility of abuse, but it also gives tools to locate and protect from abuse.

  6. I’m not worried either…just noting the Borgness of it. As long as I’m not required to snap myself into some kind of pod each night, I’m good with new technology.

  7. I’m really enjoying this blog. Creativity, reflection, invention, and good ol’ fashion randomness… Who could ask for more. And did I mention all done on a Mac? (ha!)

    CreativeWorks is forming an editing team as well for our ministry’s site. We’re trying to cross-pollinate the tremendous creativity of small churches with big ideas. While our focus is a bit more specific (the emerging churches in post-Christian Europe) the ideas here are global enough to be explored and considered.

    Back to work…

    Durand

  8. I just found out about this too and it blew me away. So cool! I wanna go to TED!

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