Photosynth usage idea
Here's an idea for Photosynth that I'd like to see happen, that I had about a year ago.
Premise: Visual hyperlinking that uses Photosynth style photo mapping for search matches.
Usage: You're out looking for a place to eat and you snap a pic with your camera phone of a café, the send the image to the Photosynth query engine and you get back a tagged result set with items. Places to eat, businesses, history, events, and ratings to name a few. You could then click through a couple of results and get impressions of other people that have eaten there.
With the increase in geotagging of photos (2.2 million this month), online public photos galleries (ala Flickr) and hyperlinking to blog posts the information is already there. All we need now is the Photosynth query service.
I'll be at Mix if you want to chat about it.
Sean