Freebase invitations
June 27th, 2007I’ve got 5 invitations for the Freebase alpha test, if anybody wants one. Use the contact form to send me your email address, and I’ll forward one to you.
UPDATE: …or just comment with a valid email address, like the last, smarter than I, person did. There are four three two one none left. Sorry.
UPDATE 2: I’m glad I didn’t get into a real review of Freebase - Kristen Nicole that better. I’ll will point out that now that I “know” some people on it as a result of the invitations, it makes getting around in there a bit more interesting anyway, as in seeing what people are up to. As far as I can tell, folks seem to be embracing the platform for building knowledge bases on very niche topics, similar I guess to what happens at Wikipedia.
Posted in Office on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
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June 29th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
me please
July 9th, 2007 at 1:32 am
me too, please.
thanks.
July 13th, 2007 at 7:57 am
would love to get one as well.
Thanks!
July 13th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I would love to get an invitation!! Thanks.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I sincerely think the review of Nicole is poor, I give a brief summary of freebase implication:
- You have a powerful query language, can write, read data.
- Can make complex queries like: tell me the CEOs of semiconductos companies where venture capital firms has invested the last year.
- Define your own types.
- Do bulk upload of information.
In Internet/Business terms all this means:
- Rely on open content sources for searching films, music, rankings, social networks, restaurants, products, etc making a shift from zillons of sites with the same info.
- Focusing more on the addition of value on that info.
- Contextualizing from news/places/persons what some text “means”
- etc, etc, etc.
It’s important to note that many organizations research about ontologies, but nobody yet has merged many concept in one clean place like freebase. I think if they solve the scalability issues thinking in millions of queries per second, they has the success.
July 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Agreed (on the latter half). But PR doesn’t hurt either, particularly when 1) you need to build the database, and 2) you have a guy like me who only had the time to do a drive-by review.
August 9th, 2007 at 4:48 am
Yes, please. I would like to have one.
Best wishes from Amsterdam,
Johan
August 9th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Sorry - none left.
August 24th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Via email: I’d welcome a freebase invite if you have one left.
Sorry James - none left.