Microsoft Pivot, a new way of browsing

Gary Flake from Microsoft research delivered a fascinating demo of ‘Microsoft Pivot’, an experimental technology which focuses on browsing collections of content/pages, rather than individual pieces of content. The concept of viewing, filtering and pivoting collections of web pages based on various attributes pulled from the content represents an exciting possible future state for web browsing.

Whilst Microsoft Pivot is available for download, the application is currently limited to a predefined set of data which have been added for demo purposes. And of course, Windows only...

This is a relatively short TED demo (6 minutes)

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