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I first saw a demonstration of Microsoft’s photo-merging capabilities a couple of years ago – it’s pretty cool stuff.
CNN has used the latest version of Microsoft’s software (now called Photosynth) to capture ‘the moment’ that President Obama was sworn in as 44.
The controls are still a little clunky – it’s a bit hard to navigate around the scene – but try it out. It’s definitely worth it. And after you check out the inauguration, look at some of the other exampmles at the Photosynth site.
This is a cool tidbit from TechChrunch.
People used their Twitter accounts to report whether they had experienced any snow in their area (and how much) and all of that data was collected real-time and fed into a Google Map to provide a real-time snapshot of what the snow levels were like across the Southern UK.
Great use of open technologies and counting on the masses to provide rich content (which, with enough users will outweigh any anomolies by anyone who would try to game the system).