I was extremely impressed by what the Microsoft Live Labs/Seadragon/Photosynth team had cooked up in cooperation with the Bing Maps team that Blaise Aguera y Arcas demoed at TED2010 (live video feed over 4G overlayed onto indoor Bing Maps “street view” in realtime + integration of worldwide telescope/”astronomically complete representation of the sky”).
It’s great to see that they haven’t slowed down. The video above, via /., is a demo of Street Slide with some details on how it works and why it’s a massive improvement over Google’s Street View. I also found it interesting that this Microsoft demo mentions porting Street Slide to only one mobile device, the iPhone. The manager of the Windows Phone 7 division can’t be pleased (or surprised).
Last night’s fantastic speech was just posted.
“[T]he gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”
David Cameron just read this during his TED talk.
