Via Mark Oehlert’s mailing list e-clippings (there must be some reason he has for keeping that list and his blog separate?) comes reference of this immensely cool Flash demo of a ‘visual search engine’ (I’m not sure what else to call it). Once you get through the flash intro, click on the ‘Camera Finder Demo’ on the bottom of the left-hand nav. It doesn’t seem like much until you start changing the parameters in the search menu to the right.
These guys are building apps fro visualizing financial data as well as product catalogues like this. They seem to be working at the nexus of XML and Flash. – SWL