Dude I’ve been freebasin’
“Hey Dan, like what’s been going on it seems like forever since you updated your blog.”
Dude, like sorry I’ve been freebasin‘.
All right this isn’t entirely true. In fact, I do not really like Metaweb’s Freebase in its current state. I just want to be the first to make a bad Freebase drug pun in a blog. Sure someone has probably beaten me to it, but when the name change announcement came, I responded right away with a Richard Pryor inquiry.
In case you haven’t heard from far smarter people than me (or at least better friends of Danny Hollis’), such as Ester Dyson and Tim O’Reilly, Freebase is the hottest thing to hit the web since Joost!
And if you missed out when your’s truly was passing around the remote control for Joost, never you fear, I’ve got the Freebase pipe. That’s right I’ve got 5 invites to the Alpha (Beta yet?) test, free for the asking.
Be advised if you really want to take advantage of Freebase before an active community and better tools develop, you should have some dev skills. What the philosophical commenters don’t talk about is the API which is really cool. Underlying Freebase is an object oriented database which is accessible using a proprietary query language called MQL. MQL looks a lot like JSON. In fact, I probably would of called it JSONQL, but then I don’t have the marketing savvy to name a product Freebase.
Personally, I enjoyed reading the API docs more than playing with the data. A lot of really smart thought went into figuring out how to organize unstructured data.
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