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

December 15, 2010 | In: Web design

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www.ted.com 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.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com

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

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December 15th, 2010 at 3:48 am

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devilninjas

December 15th, 2010 at 4:35 am

boring… its already there. this guy looks like living in dinosaur’s world

MUR4DHD

December 15th, 2010 at 5:05 am

that smart

egalmannen

December 15th, 2010 at 5:58 am

@strappinggermanlad hahahaha word

pwiattitto

December 15th, 2010 at 6:12 am

@nathanaelawrence

I like the (yet unrivalled by any other microsoft os) stability and reliability of XP SP3.

And I don’t believe in the constant replacement of OS’s as a prerequisit of modern day computing.

If or When I make my next hardware upgrade, I will still use XP …for the gaming side of things.

MarkoKraguljac

December 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am

@nathanaelawrence
Interesting. Thanks buddy for your effort and good will.

nathanaelawrence

December 15th, 2010 at 7:09 am

@Lycanthis
1. Deep Zoom Items = documented format
2. Deep Zoom Collections = documented format
3. XML = easily parsed schema
4. Linux = resourceful users
5. You can build your own HTML5 Canvas or Flash viewer for Pivot collections.
6. Seadragon AJAX may beat you to #5
7. Novell’s Moonlight team will get this running in 2011.

December 15th, 2010 at 8:04 am

@MarkoKraguljac The Silverlight 4 version isn’t tied to Windows Aero.

And for my friends who unreasonably hate Silverlight, keep your eye on Seadragon AJAX as the HTML5 Canvas tag becomes supported across all browsers. I’m pretty sure we’ll see Seadragon AJAX support Deep Zoom Collections, rather than only single Deep Zoom Images, which enables an HTML5 Pivot control.

December 15th, 2010 at 8:31 am

@pwiattitto Just wait for the Silverlight 4 version that’s coming out this summer. It’ll work for you.

Honestly, you should think about buying an operating system that isn’t 9 years old now, though.

December 15th, 2010 at 8:38 am

@noamkos

1. The Pivot *client* has been available for download since November 2009.
2. The Pivot *client* is only for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
3. When the Pivot *control* ships for Silverlight 4 this summer (which they do say right on the site) it will work on modern Macs, on Windows xp, etc. etc.
4. The ‘Download Now’ button links directly to the installation file for the Pivot client. You need only Silverlight to watch the videos on the site.

cpt203

December 15th, 2010 at 8:43 am

@miggyb89 Agree wholeheartedly. Kind of like a bicycle for a fish> neat concept, but not exactly practical.

December 15th, 2010 at 9:06 am

@ChrisSketch Most people dont.

clicchick

December 15th, 2010 at 10:04 am

?
i was able to download pivot
are you sure your system is compatible?

BOWENSblog

December 15th, 2010 at 10:26 am

Last year I asked for a good laptop.

I got a mac book pro as a gift… but i threw it down the stairs because I was pissed off because It was an apple product.

wasimsworld

December 15th, 2010 at 11:16 am

Our brain works with association anyway so in a sense viewing information like this is more natural.

noamkos

December 15th, 2010 at 11:36 am

Brilliant idea: I loved the talk and got so excited… went on the website and now I’m pissed off with Microsoft AGAIN:

>> when I clicked Download, I expected to download Piovt, not Microsoft Silverlight!! I did install it in the hope to use Pivot but Pivot is not yet available!!!

This is yet another Mircosoft way to shove down our throat their crap products! What RUBBISH MARKETING! I hate this company’s attitude… why not say upfront on the website: wait till summer for download?

December 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

microsoft pivot – “windows xp is not supported”
i’m already starting lose interest!

ehhhhhhhhhh

December 15th, 2010 at 1:07 pm

Recommended System Configuration: Windows 7 with Aero enabled, 2-GHz 32-bit (x86) processor, 2 gigabytes of random access memory.

DANG

December 15th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

The “transcribed audio” at 5:33 hahahahahaha

Sazuck

December 15th, 2010 at 2:54 pm

using XP+Firefox => can’t use it… damn

dryan22

December 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Excellent observation!

jeru18

December 15th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

what a waste of space, to save all historys…..

t3tsuyaguy1

December 15th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Touche.

It does make me wonder if there is not value in development being shared at TED. Seeing what someone has done with one idea, will sometimes inspire others.