“Don’t just search for one thing! Explore a whole set of related things together.” This is the tagline of David Huynh’s new application, Parallax.

David recently joined Metaweb from MIT’s Simile Project, where he worked on such visualisation tools as Exhibit. Now he’s working on visualisations with Freebase.

Stefano has already blogged about it:

But last month David managed (yet again) to blow me away (and believe me, it’s getting harder and harder) by showing me an internal prototype of Parallax, his implementation of link sliding on top of Metaweb’s Freebase.

Thanks to the power, flexibility and speed of the Freebase API and its massive amount of multi-typed data, Parallax not only shows the wonderfully innovative UI paradigm that David invented, but it rivals, if you ask me, Freebase’s own user interface for usefulness.

But let’s use it for something useful: have you ever wondered if there is a relationship between the economical indicators of corporate campaign contributors to Barack Obama and their contributions? Try asking that question to Google, or Wikipedia!

Parallax and Freebase, working together, not only allow you to ask that question relatively easily, but also allow you to embed the resulting (web friendly! look ma, no flash!) plot directly into your blog!

There’s a video of how it works, too:

Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on Vimeo.

This is absolutely gorgeous. Congrats to David on a fantastic Freebase app.