Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

From TED: "Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing."

Pivot is still an experiment, not a finished product. It isn't available for Mac or Linux yet, and not even to Windows xp users.

visit http://memo.hardrock.com to view a Pivot collection inside of Silverlight. The interface is different than Pivot's, but there's nothing stopping anyone from porting the controls over to a Silverlight app.

This demo also shows how important that is to make your data computer readable , i.e. semantically tagged.