Emergent Web-i-ness, Information Connecting to Make All That Information More Interesting... What do you say about this?

Check out this video. It's a guy from Microsoft who in about five minutes will blow your mind 12 different ways. First he shows a user interface he developed as a way to display and view tons of photos and a host of other information in an elegant and totally useful manner (the software is called Seadragon).

The wilder application of Seadragon he demonstrates is a utility called Photosynth. Photosynth compiles photos (of Notre Dame, for example) from a public photo database (Flickr, say). It then determines the angle from which all the shots were taken and creates a kind of holographic image from all those photos. Finally, using Seadragon, you can navigate through those images, closer and further from any angle you want.

It's amazing. But I know this won't make any sense until you see it. So just go have a look.