Very cool. This is surprisingly quick. Its also nice that it works with the scroll wheel. Makes zooming in and out a breeze.

It looks like its using one large image as opposed to many smaller sliced-up images. I'm curious how this would affect performance.

Google Maps has the same scroll wheel interface. It's a bit confusing at first.

It uses many sliced-up images, just like everything else. It looks like they just have much better JavaScript logic.

I think the "momentum" effect really improves the experience. It feels as if you're physically manipulating it.

Nicely done.

Should've mentioned that Kishore is an MIT alum. Or maybe I have too much school pride.

I think it was enough that Ian mentioned Kishore being an exceptionally bright person straight out of college. Mentioning MIT might make people feel bad who went to lesser schools like Harvard. ;-)