This application would automatically obtain images taken at the same news event by multiple photographers and display them in an AJAX application that allows the user to array them in any order they want. The idea is that the images could be displayed in some logical order based on time and space.
This way, we can see a grouping of essentially the same images displayed in one screen, with slight differences based on the vantage point of the photographer and the slight differences in the time that the shot was taken.
A classic example of this can be seen in the Courtroom Exeunt of Bernie Ebbers and his wife after he was convicted yesterday in New York. As they emerge from the courthouse, Mrs. Ebbers is stern and ashen-faced. As they plunge toward the sidewalk, and attempt to hail a cab, she breaks down and begins to cry. At some point, Ebbers breaks from his wife and put his arm around a woman who happened to be caught up in the hubbub. His stepdaughter is in some of the photos.
Arraying these photos in one screen, along with a narrative of the scene, would be interesting and (it seems) not a horribly difficult programming task, based on what is already out there in the world of Flickr and mini-apps like mappr.
Waddaya think?