The team over at Microsoft have laid down the gauntlet with a deep zoom collage of the photography going back to 1978!  There are hundreds of photos, all easily filtered in realtime, and the experience is impressive.  The entire application was developed in just 6 days, and is stored on the Windows Azure Storage Services.

Hurry!  You can still check it out HERE. And for more information on how those delicate geniuseseses put it together, head over the Michael Kordahi‘s blog.