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/

EDIT2: project has been shut down in 2017.