I’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.
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me please
me too, please.
thanks.
would love to get one as well.
Thanks!
I would love to get an invitation!! Thanks.
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.
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.
Yes, please. I would like to have one.
Best wishes from Amsterdam,
Johan
Sorry – none left.
Via email: I’d welcome a freebase invite if you have one left.
Sorry James – none left.