[Web4lib] Freebase appears to be live in its alpha state, no invitation necessary

[Rebecca Parker]

Hi everyone

David is right: Freebase is now in public alpha, which means that anyone can view the data but write access is still restricted to registered users (see email news release below):


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Rebecca Parker
 
ARROW Project Officer
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn VIC 3122
 
Phone: +61 3 9214 4806
Email:   RParker at groupwise.swin.edu



From: 	Freebase Alpha List <alpha at freebase.com>
To:	<announce at freebase.com>
Date: 	23/08/2007 07:24 am
Subject: 	Freebase now open for public read access

Freebase.com is now in "public alpha".  Anybody in the world can search and
browse the site.  All applications based on the Freebase API have public read
access.

http://www.freebase.com 

Also, thanks to great feedback from an active alpha community, the
Freebase site has improved quite a bit, and there is a growing group
of enthusiastic contributors and developers.  There is a lot of new
data  -- over 30,000 films, 500,000 notable people, more sports,
businesses, science and so on.


Regards
Rebecca

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From: 	"D.H. Mattison" <dmattison at shaw.ca>
To:	web4lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: 	23/08/2007 15:59 pm
Subject: 	[Web4lib] Freebase appears to be live in its alpha state, no invitation necessary

August 22, 2007

Freebase (http://www.freebase.com/signin) appears to be live and open in its
alpha state and no invitation is necessary to register for a free account. I
requested an invitation a day or two ago and received it today. During the
time I registered, activated my account, and started putting in some
information, the site appears to have opened itself up to the whole
Internet. I checked with two different browsers just to make sure that URL
worked. It's a pretty amazing system and I think it will rival Wikipedia in
its utility over time. The initial content comes from Wikipedia and other
open sources. With an open API, active development and reuse of the data is
encouraged.

David Mattison
The Ten Thousand Year Blog (http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress)

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