Blogs
- The Freebase Blog: a blog for data geeks, application developers and interested civilians.
In the News
We are particularly excited about all the coverage we've gotten. Here's a selection of some notable press and blogs about Freebase and Metaweb.
Highlights
Freebase will prove addictive- "Once you understand a bit about what Metaweb is doing, you realize just how remarkable it is ... If Metaweb gets this right ... they are building new synapses for the global brain."
Freebase, the database, wants to be global brain- "It is one of the grand ideas, so obvious in hindsight, but so gargantuan in ambition that it takes someone with unusual imagination to propose doing it. This should be fun to watch.."
Sharing what matters- "... The web ... though impressive, is pedestrian compared with what [Metaweb] has in mind."
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching- "The idea of a centralized database storing all of the world’s digital information is a fundamental shift away from today’s World Wide Web.... [Freebase’s approach] would make it possible for programmers and Web developers to write programs allowing Internet users to pose queries that might produce a simple, useful answer rather than a long list of documents."
Other Coverage
- TechCrunch: This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and kills us all
- O'Reilly Radar: Different Approaches to the Semantic Web
- The Huffington Post: Metaweb - Emergent Structure vs. Intelligent Design
- ZDNet: Metaweb - creating the world's searchable global brain
- EQO: Freebase - the best thing to happen to the Creative Commons since Lawrence Lessig?
- Neomeme: Freebasing the semantic web
- Semantic Web: White Lines
- Semantic Nodix: Freebase
- What works: using Freebase - O'Reilly's right. Its addictive!
- Jon Udell: Like a moth to the Freebase flame
- Squio: Freebase - Life, the Universe, and Everything
- zweinull.cc: Ein umfassender Einblick in Freebase (in German)
- Boris Mann Experimenting with Freebase
- Hamster Soup: Playing with Freebase - list of television spin-offs
- Hamster Soup: My Freebase Talk
- Open Business: Wikipedia for Data - Freebase
- Webpronews.com: Freebase - the stem of a global brain?
- Freebasing.org: Exploring Freebase and Metaweb
