Microsoft Live Labs has a new baby: Pivot.
Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web.
My firt impression: Huuge potential. It is what I think that future search methods should be. A mix between related data, context information, and visual search. The only thing that I cannot undestabd is why only visual search… we have a lot of algorithms to index media… we can do more…
It uses Deep Zoom (a technology that is part of silverlight) that allows to render images in a smart way (Note to me: Must do a Post on how Deep Zoom works) to render the collections.
You can get an invitation by following the dev team in twitter.