Hi Mike,

I kind of know what you mean with this one. Photosynth has the feel of tech that is looking for a home.

Scraping flickr for content, and the associated implication that every node in the potentially inifinite network is enriched by the associative semantic metadata of every other relevant node is just brilliant. But at the same time, it is a sad truth that unless and until embedded in a no-brainer app it is likely to remain an ephemeral piece of really cool technology.

The bit about Blaise Aguera y Arcas’s presentation to TED2007 which really got the hairs on the back of my neck standing up was the ‘infinite zoom’ functionality he demonstrated by embedding microdot-sized technical specs into a car ad. I would *love* to be able to embed museum object metadata right into the object image and then to disclose it to users in this really cool way.