Photosynth – a parallel world made by collective wisdom

Today I watched one of my favourite TED presentations. It mixes some of my favourite topics, nowadays: data visualization and social networks. It’s almost a crazy dream to think that someday, everything you upload to the internet will be connected to the semantic web. You will be able to upload your holiday pictures and they will be tagged automatically. And if you forgot to shoot a little detail on the landscape, don’t worry, someone else did that task for you. On one hand, it seems a dream (everything connected, you, your data, your friends, your city, your favourite restaurant, etc, etc) but on the other hand there are many leaking issues such as privacy…

EDIT: check it here: http://photosynth.net/

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4 Responses to Photosynth – a parallel world made by collective wisdom

  1. senseu says:

    Hmmm, I am tempted to try this.

  2. nuno says:

    Hi senseu!
    Give it a try! You can download the state of art here: http://photosynth.net/

    Then, tell me about your opinion.

  3. serdeka says:

    Thanks a lot for this post

  4. nuno says:

    You’re welcome, serdeka! :)

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