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

[Jessica Hess]

Lars, I can't answer your [very good] questions, but I can report
that, if it was open a few days ago, that is no longer the case.  It
appears that you need an invitation to get an account, now.

-- 
Jess

On 8/27/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> D.H. Mattison wrote:
>
> > Freebase (http://www.freebase.com/signin) [...] 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'm hearing all this buzz about Freebase and I've seen they have
> dumped in information from Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.  It's all
> the traditional hype about "semantic web" and "the future will be
> wonderful" and "I can find a child-friendly dentist nearby" (can
> you really?), so the flying cars can't be far away now.
>
> In my mind, Wikipedia and MusicBrainz are wonderful, but I don't
> really understand what Freebase is for.
>
> I'd like to hear what kind of information *you* have found useful
> to input into Freebase.  And what practical problems have you run
> into?  Is there no vandalism, no spam, no copyright infringements,
> no authority/trustworthyness problems, no privacy or harassment
> problems?
>
> And didn't the hype around Google Base die away rather quickly?
> Wasn't that supposed to be the same thing?  Or what's different?
> Today Google Base looks like an advertising platform for used
> cars.  Was that the intention?  Will the same happen to Freebase?
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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