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

[David Rothman]

I also have R/W invitations if anyone wants them.  :)

On 8/27/07, Hirst, Edward Alan <EAH0116 at ecu.edu> wrote:
>
> The email I received stated it was open for public read access, you still
> need an invite for write access. I have ten invitations, if anyone wants
> one, just email me.
>
> ed
>
> Edward Hirst
> Information Technology Librarian
> Rowan Public Library
> http://www.rowanpubliclibrary.org
> Salisbury, NC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Jessica Hess
> Sent: Mon 8/27/2007 10:34 AM
> To: Lars Aronsson
> Cc: web4lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Freebase appears to be live in its alpha state,no
> invitation necessary
>
> 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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