Pivot: A Turning Point in Web Exploration

Pivot may revolutionize the way we use the internet.

Gary Flake, founder and director of Live Labs at Microsoft, demonstrates a new technology that allows for the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing. It essential has the ability to sort not only massive amounts of data but also content. Use of the internet shifts from just surfing page-to-page to actually becoming a web of connected sites, information, and content. The combination of all the knowledge and insight from the innumerable sources of the web defined, sorted, and well-presented could define what it means to be connected in the future.

Gary says this is something in between searching and browsing. It is that middle road that makes it so innovative. You would have the ability to operate on a much larger scale and move from many things to many things as opposed to a tedious search of fragments.