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• 03.19.08
  Want Addictive? Try FlickrVision – Catch-All Apps and Gawkables Uncategorized | (0)

  FlickrVisionThere's something hypnotic about this - a real time stream of photos being posted to Flickr, showing the location of the person uploading on the globe, which rotates and spins. (There's also TwitterVision for those more inclined). Now, a Google virtual earth may be some time off, but these are little hints of things to come - mirror worlds, augmented reality: being able to swim through data and content that's geo-positioned in a virtual world. PhotoSynth Photosynth being demo'd by Microsoft is a similar preview of the future and it's astonishing. In this case, it takes photos from a variety of sources (for ...

  Tagged: Evernote, flickr, flickrvision, microsoft, photosynth
  

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