Yesterday, Gary Flake, head of Microsoft’s Live Labs, gave me a tour of Photosynth. It is simply the demo of the year. Certainly the coolest thing showed off this week at the Web 2.0 Summit.

Gary gives a great demo.

Behind me there were a couple of Web 2.0 summit attendees and they were whispering to each other “f***ing amazing.” Even better than you can load this on your own computer, get it on the Photosynth site.

I’m going to take the rest of the day off. In fact, I might take all of next week off from my text blog to dedicate time to answering email and to getting caught up on ScobleShow editing tasks.

Interesting writeup by Don Macaskill, CEO of SmugMug, who tells why Amazin is saving his photosharing service big bucks.

Stephane Rodriguez: Google’s Mayer bogus claims on Gmail speed. Love how he uses my last name to look into Google’s search quality. It really does give Google a black eye when my top result is a site that hasn’t been updated for a year and a half. Calling Matt Cutts, can ya tune up the engine?