FreeBase.com launches today!  (1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ... |
FreeBase.com, the lastest product of MetaWeb, launches today.In MetaWeb’s FAQ section, it claims;
Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons.
With this lastest introduction of FreeBase.com, pundits in the technology section are being very postive:
Tim O’reilly in his blog claims that
While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web.
To the company that behind Freebase.com, O’reilly thinks that :
Metaweb still has a long way to go, but it seems to me that they are pointing the way to a fascinating new chapter in the evolution of Web 2.0.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch.com even believes that freebase.com is so good that it could even be envied by google as in his words:
I imagine there will be more than one forehead self-smacked at Google HQ tomorrow, as they think “We could have done this.”
Check out the wise words of the experts or if you’d like to test the water personally, Sign up with freebase.com to get on the list for an invitation!
I’m still waiting…
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