... is "A new way to browse and explore data" by David Huynh. Watch the video on the site -- someday, perhaps far, far in the future, the way it's going, we will be able to browse data gathered by news organizations as richly and as artfully as that. (The video is a best-case scenario. In practice, my data browsing with Parallax didn't go as smoothly as demonstrated in the video.) Parallax leverages Freebase, "an open, shared database of the world's knowledge." Huynh works as a research scientist for Metaweb Technologies, the company behind Freebase, and worked on the Simile project at MIT. (I used Simile's Timeline a few years ago to make an interactive timline of the Comair crash).
UPDATE: Jon Udell interviewed Huynh a few days ago for his Interviews with Innnovators podcast series.
[via Ryan Sholin's Friendfeed]
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