I was amazed when I first saw this as it combined two main technologies, one being their Seadragon image zooming and the other a technology that literally analyses and stitches together images in to a 3D space (no not the Quicktime equivalent).

For me though the future link is when they line up the idea of dynamically pulling semantic content from Flickr, because the content is already tagged, its a no-brainer to see how humanity could document the world through images.

The exciting part is linking this back to broader content through the existing semantic connections already created.

Multi Touch screens have been around for sometime now, although the majority of people have not seen this yet, in Europe they are already part of the furniture of bars and clubs.

The cost is already down significantly to make this a real technology to change our lives on an interesting level. Both for fun but of course we have all seen minority report and how it can be put to serious use (and I don't mean predicting the future).

A very cool video
What is the definition of web 2.0?

In our quest for world wide web domination, we tend to get carried away and always need to remind ourselves these. Here's a link on an article written by Jakob Nielsen.

So here they are http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

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Mo Farik