Well I've been an alpha user of freebase for a while and I must say I'm well impressed by this new online database of everything. It's open, it's free, it's all under creative commons licensing, it's pretty sweet
What is it?
It's about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data. It's a big job and we're just getting started.
I've been fairly quiet on it, but the couple of times I started adding information to it I found myself spidering across topics and adding information left, right and centre. It's definitely easier to edit than wikipedia, with topics being linked to types, which have a predefined structure, allowing quick inputting of information.
Why am I bigging it up?
I've been granted 5 invitations to use as I see fit. I don't imagine these will be as popular as Joost invites, but I'm going to limit them to neighbours or people who actually post on Vox.
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