Tag: FREEBASE

Eight days into our Invite-a-palooza, we want to give a shout out to all readers who have taken the time to check out all the neat sites we've featured. We're having a great time giving out invitations, and we're not done yet. Freebase, a collective knowledge database, is a terrific twist on information Web sites like Wikipedia. The creators of Freebase describe it as an "almanac" that sorts and ...

The semantic web, a way of describing the interconnectedness of everything in data, has always promised far more than it has delivered. The basic idea is to allow users to define the interconnectedness of the data, and to harness the amazing power of millions of websurfers to make that happen. Good luck. Users are self-serving, and as many have pointed out, the tagging and structure of Web 2.0 ...