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| x New data dumps | The Freebase Blog | Jul 9, 2008 11:01:03PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=251 |
We’ve just released a new set of Freebase’s full data dumps on download.freebase.com.
Our full dumps contain all the structured data from Freebase, and come in two forms:
A collection of tab-separated variable (TSV) files, suitable for...
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| x Congratulations evening, creator of our 4 millionth topic | The Freebase Blog | Jul 9, 2008 11:14:50PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=252 |
Last week we announced a competition to see who would be the creator of Freebase’s 4 millionth topic.
That topic was created this afternoon, and the winner is evening. Her entry on Tungaru Central Hospital in Kiribati, which she added as part...
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| x Data mob: Bedtime stories | The Freebase Blog | Jul 15, 2008 6:55:38PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=254 |
This week’s data mob is all about your favourite children’s books. You can add those you enjoyed yourself as a child, or those your kids enjoy now.
Go to Book and click “Add new Book” to add one, then go fill out the author,...
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| x Tip: Type constrained searches | The Freebase Blog | Jun 27, 2008 4:41:22PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=228 |
There’s a little known feature of the autocomplete search box in the Freebase header — its that you can pass along the type along with the string you’re looking for and it will limit your search to topics of that type.
For instance...
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| x Data mob: Least Developed Countries | The Freebase Blog | Jul 2, 2008 10:33:50PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=238 |
If you look at a map of locations covered by Freebase:
… you’ll see that it’s almost the inverse of a map of the least developed countries in the world:
This week’s data mob is all about trying to fill some of those empty...
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| x Competition: Freebase’s 4 millionth topic | The Freebase Blog | Jul 2, 2008 7:51:07PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=233 |
Freebase currently stands at 3.926 million topics, and we should be hitting 4 million some time in the next few weeks.
I’d like to announce a small competition for when that time comes. Whoever enters the 4 millionth topic in Freebase will...
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| x Data mob: places of worship | The Freebase Blog | Jun 26, 2008 7:29:34PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=231 |
Thanks to those who helped out with Ed’s Motorcycle data mob last week!
This week our subject is places of worship, worldwide and for all religions.
We’ve listed weblinks on our data mob page. Start there, choosing whatever religion...
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| x 3.995 million — and counting | The Freebase Blog | Jul 7, 2008 5:46:42PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=242 |
Just a reminder that when we hit 4 million topics — probably sometime today — there’ll be a prize for the contributor responsible for the 4 millionth.
My money’s on one of our top contributors as seen on the Freebase homepage...
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| x 200k new topics! | The Freebase Blog | Jun 26, 2008 12:32:10AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=226 |
If you’ve looked at our homepage lately, you’ll see we’re heading towards 3.9 million topics, up a couple of hundred thousand since last time we checked in.
I hadn’t heard about any big new data loads, so I went looking for...
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| x Using the filter/table view | The Freebase Blog | Jun 26, 2008 4:50:02PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=227 |
I’m pretty excited by our new filter/table view, but there are a lot of cool features there that you might not find straight away.
Phil, our new Doctor Docs, has written a guide to using the filter/table view that’s worth a look.
Phil...
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| x A3.25 Release Notes | The Freebase Blog | Jul 15, 2008 11:56:40PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=250 |
Highlights
New user homepage - now with a ‘new on freebase’ feed and other UI improvements. For more see the related blog posting.
New Schema editor - we’ve sped up the rendering and made the UI more intuitive - simplifying schema...
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| x New on Freebase: new user homepage | The Freebase Blog | Jul 15, 2008 11:57:24PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=236 |
If you’ve logged into Freebase you’ve probably noticed some changes. Your homepage has been cleaned up and offers a few slick new features that we hope you’ll like.
New on Freebase: First and foremost is the ‘New on Freebase...
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| x Freebase at OSCON | The Freebase Blog | Jul 22, 2008 1:39:01AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=257 |
I’m in Portland, Oregon at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Jamie, Colin, and Toby are (or will be) here as well and are presenting on Thursday:
Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction from Wikipedia & Other Semantically Weak...
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| x Schema editing made simple(r) | The Freebase Blog | Jul 16, 2008 4:08:42PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=239 |
Now showing at a type near you: a brand new version of schema editor! Available via the ‘view properties’ tab on any type page, it has all the functionality of the old editor but its much faster and easier to use. An effort was made to...
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| x Reusing properties: the greatest form of flattery? | The Freebase Blog | Jul 17, 2008 5:39:54PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=240 |
Have you ever wanted to use a property from another type in your own schema? How about copying a bunch of properties from different types? With the latest release, there’s a new feature called delegated properties that lets you do just that. A...
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| x Save me! Storing filtered views on Freebase… | The Freebase Blog | Jul 24, 2008 1:06:58AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=260 |
Have you ever wanted to save a filtered set of topics on Freebase and promote it on your domain homepage? Or perhaps you want easy access to it from your homepage. Let’s say you have a list of French cheeses that come from goats or a list of...
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| x How are you using Freebase’s data dumps? | The Freebase Blog | Jul 22, 2008 9:48:58PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=261 |
You know about our full Freebase data dumps, right? We just announced that a shiny new set’s available.
We’d like to know what you’re using them for. If you’ve downloaded the data dumps and are using them for anything, or...
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| x A3.26 Release Notes | The Freebase Blog | Jul 24, 2008 1:06:43AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=259 |
Highlights
Saved views - ability to name and save a filtered view to a domain homepage. More on this here
Redesigned Discuss - featuring separate pages per thread and the ability to associate threads with multiple topics. More on this in an...
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| x Let’s talk about the new discuss | The Freebase Blog | Jul 24, 2008 7:24:50PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=262 |
Its been obvious for a while that the discussion functionality on Freebase needed some love. This was most apparent on the pages for commonly discussed topics like the data page where it was practically impossible to find your way through the...
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| x Data mob: Past Olympic Games | The Freebase Blog | Jul 24, 2008 11:19:00PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=263 |
We’ve recently created an Olympics domain in the Freebase commons, in preparation for this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, which begins August 8th. Between now and then we’ll be having a few Olympics data mobs, so this week’s...
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| x Delegating properties in schema editor | The Freebase Blog | Jul 25, 2008 3:37:32PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=267 |
A short followup on my previous post about delegated properties… In that post I described how to delegate a property when creating a new type from the filter page. This was great when creating a new type but didn’t work for creating...
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| x Help! | The Freebase Blog | Jul 29, 2008 12:27:34AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=255 |
If you’re a regular Freebase user you may have noticed that that the Help area has been going through some changes. New topics have been added, old ones have been updated to reflect new features and functions, and there’s a new...
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| x Data mob: Olympic athletes by country | The Freebase Blog | Jul 29, 2008 7:28:27PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=272 |
Last week we looked at where and when the Olympics happened for each olympiad since 1896. This week, our data mob is about at athletes.
Here’s a view of Olympic Participating Countries and their athletes. Your task is to find one with no...
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| x Ways to stay in touch | The Freebase Blog | Jul 31, 2008 9:37:23PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=273 |
If you’re reading this, then I presume you follow the Freebase blog, either on blog.freebase.com or via our RSS feed. But how else can you stay up to date with what’s going on at Freebase?
1. Twitter
If you use Twitter, the micro...
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| x Data mob: this year’s Olympic teams | The Freebase Blog | Aug 4, 2008 10:52:26PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=275 |
Our new data mob is all about who’s going to Beijing to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
We’ve already loaded the entire US olympic team so your job is to do the same for other countries. We’ve provided some links to get you...
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| x Freebase user group meeting postponed; instead, beer! | The Freebase Blog | Aug 5, 2008 5:53:08AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=258 |
Ordinarily we’d be having a user group meeting in mid-August, according to our not-very-official system of having one about every two months.
Unfortunately, we’re remodelling Freebase HQ around then, and attempting to squeeze a user...
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| x Recent data loads: airports, saints, beer, quotations, and more | The Freebase Blog | Aug 5, 2008 7:54:00PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=276 |
Some of our recent data loads:
1,200 saints
1,900 new airports
2,700 beers from the Oxford bottled beer database
21,310 images from non-English-language Wikipedias
31,212 quotations from QuotationsBook
81,000 US place names from the GNIS database
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| x A3.27 Release Notes | The Freebase Blog | Aug 6, 2008 7:51:54PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=274 |
This release was focused mainly on bug fixing and cleanup. There are few notable enhancements, however…
Safari support - we’re happy to announce that we’ve added Safari 3.0+ to our list of supported browsers. Truth be told, its...
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| x The areas of your expertise | The Freebase Blog | Aug 6, 2008 7:51:43PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=279 |
If you’re the administrator of a domain, you may have wondered for a while what the expert role does. The answer had been, well, not that much — but we’re pleased to announce that with the latest release, this group of users now...
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| x Freebase and geodata - a presentation from Where2.0 | The Freebase Blog | Aug 18, 2008 1:26:06PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=277 |
O’Reilly have posted a video of Jonathan Lowe’s Where2.0 presentation on blip.tv. For your viewing pleasure, here it is!
Jonathan will be presenting the same material plus “about 45 more minutes worth on collaboration,...
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| x Introducing Freebase Parallax | The Freebase Blog | Aug 12, 2008 7:55:52PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=288 |
“Don’t just search for one thing! Explore a whole set of related things together.” This is the tagline of David Huynh’s new application, Parallax.
David recently joined Metaweb from MIT’s Simile Project, where he...
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| x Inviting folks to Freebase domains | The Freebase Blog | Aug 21, 2008 1:34:40AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=298 |
With the newest release, we’ve introduced a nifty new feature that allows you to more easily invite people to a domain. Let’s say you’ve got a friend who’s fascinated by wine and you think he or she might be interested in...
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| x State of Freebase’s Olympics data | The Freebase Blog | Aug 16, 2008 4:13:32PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=295 |
I’m not sure what time the “new this week” counter rolls over, but I thought I’d take a moment to capture these stats from our Olympics domain:
That’s a lot of new information! Thanks to everyone who’s been...
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| x A3.28 Release Notes | The Freebase Blog | Aug 21, 2008 1:35:49AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=297 |
There are a couple of new features of note in this release:
Email invitations to domains - now you can easily invite others to join a domain you think they’d be interested in. For more, see the related blog posting
New Freebase expert group ...
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| x Olympics coverage on Freebase | The Freebase Blog | Aug 12, 2008 6:43:09PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=287 |
If you’re following the Olympics, you may be interested in some of the saved views we’ve created in the Olympics domain. Here are a few of them:
2008 Olympic competitors
Olympic event schedule
Olympic venues in Beijing and elsewhere...
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| x Put down the burrito and step away slowly: where not to eat in San Francisco | The Freebase Blog | Aug 15, 2008 7:19:15PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=293 |
Toby has loaded the San Francisco Health Department’s scores for all the local restaurants into Freebase, and a couple of weeks ago he shared with us this list of restaurants ordered by health department score.
Now he’s created a heat...
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| x Freebase meetup in London, next Wednesday August 20th | The Freebase Blog | Aug 14, 2008 12:51:19AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=292 |
Next week the Freebase offices are shut down for remodeling — we’re ripping out some walls and getting some natural light in, which will be great, even if it does mean that I lose my cubbyhole — and we’ve all been told to...
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| x Freebase on the iPhone | The Freebase Blog | Aug 14, 2008 6:38:16PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=284 |
We mentioned last week that Freebase now officially supports Safari. To be honest it’s been pretty well supported for a while, except in some of the more esoteric areas, but now at least it’s official and we’ve removed that nasty...
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| x Freebase Parallax open sourced; get it on Google Code | The Freebase Blog | Aug 20, 2008 7:13:53AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=301 |
David tells me he’s just put up the source code for Freebase Parallax on Google Code. Download the Freebase Parallax source here.
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| x Your vote counts! Help us with the review queue. | The Freebase Blog | Aug 25, 2008 6:14:45PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=289 |
The review queue can be found in the centre of the Freebase homepage, below the newsfeed, if you’re logged in. It looks like this:
The number of review items grew to 900+ recently but is slowly starting to come down again now. Why did it...
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| x Toucha toucha toucha touch me! | The Freebase Blog | Aug 29, 2008 12:35:52AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=229 |
Here’s a little Rocky Horror Picture Show clip to help you remember one of our newer API features.
We often get asked by application developers how to clear the cache. The problem occurs when you have an app that reads from Freebase, then...
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| x Data mob: all roads lead to… | The Freebase Blog | Sep 10, 2008 12:38:55AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=308 |
Here’s a new data mob: the road type in the transportation domain currently has 7000-odd items, and after paging through a lot of them, it seems as if most are US highways.
Let’s add some different kinds of roads. Either add the streets...
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| x Wikimedia SF meetup, September 6th at Freebase HQ | The Freebase Blog | Aug 29, 2008 2:09:01AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=303 |
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and are involved in Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wiktionary, etc, then come join us for the Wikimedia SF Meetup #7.
As heavy users of Wikipedia, we’re delighted to be able to...
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| x Freebase’s new experts programme | The Freebase Blog | Aug 29, 2008 10:22:47PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=302 |
Freebase is growing, and as we get more and more people joining us to use and contribute data we’re finding it more and more important to actively support our community.
Historically, support for Freebase has come from Metaweb employees, but...
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| x Freebase user group meeting, September 17th | The Freebase Blog | Sep 5, 2008 1:20:42AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=305 |
It’s that time again. If you’re in the SF Bay Area, mark your calendars for Wednesday September 17th, 6:30pm onwards, when we’ll be holding our quasi-regular Freebase user group meeting right here at Freebase HQ.
The address is...
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| x State of the roads data mob | The Freebase Blog | Sep 12, 2008 1:21:43AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=309 |
Here’s a map of roads we currently have in Freebase, or rather, cities noted as “major cities” which our roads pass through:
As you can see, we have incredible density in the US, but less so elsewhere. Please help us by joining...
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| x Confirmed speakers for next week’s user group meeting | The Freebase Blog | Sep 12, 2008 11:27:10PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=310 |
Right, I’ve got confirmed speakers for next Wednesday’s Freebase user group meeting here in San Francisco. I’m really excited about these talks! We’ll hear from some friends working on related open data project, and from...
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| x A3.29 Release Notes | The Freebase Blog | Sep 11, 2008 1:27:11AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=307 |
Highlights of this release
Gallery view - we’re pleased to announce a new visualization for the type/filter page. We’ve added a gallery view that displays topic thumbnails in a grid with the properties you’ve selected. You can...
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| x Data mob: suggest more data mobs | The Freebase Blog | Sep 19, 2008 5:35:46PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=311 |
First up, thanks to everyone who contributed roads during our previous data mob. We gained thousands of new roads in a number of countries.
Now it’s time to move from the concrete (no pun intended) to the abstract.
Ever since we launched our...
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| x Interesting saved views for this week’s data mob | The Freebase Blog | Sep 22, 2008 9:18:36PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=314 |
Here’s a handful of highlights from this week’s data mob so far. I’ve taken them from the list of saved queries, sorted by the newest first.
Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht by arielb.
Bridges missing length by zenkat...
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| x More interesting saved views | The Freebase Blog | Sep 25, 2008 4:44:31PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=316 |
Here are a few more interesting saved views, in relation to this week’s data mob:
Black actors who have portrayed God by jfry
People typed as company, Fraternity/sorority typed as people, and Organizations typed as people, and Government...
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| x Two new Freebase apps: co5TARs and Albumist | The Freebase Blog | Sep 24, 2008 8:00:25PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=317 |
Co5TARS uses Freebase’s film data to provide a visual search engine for people involved in films.
We are delighted to announce the release of co5TARS, a visual search engine designed to help you discover the lives behind the movies. We’...
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| x Saved view data mob wrap-up | The Freebase Blog | Oct 1, 2008 7:28:02PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=321 |
A handful more saved views from this week’s data mob, and then we’ll be moving on to the next one.
Corporate casualties of the subprime lending crisis by arielb
Theatres in London, England by freebass
80s films by barak
Science Fiction...
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| x Announcing: Freebase Open Mondays | The Freebase Blog | Sep 30, 2008 5:42:58PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=320 |
Come visit Freebase HQ in San Francisco next Monday, and the first Monday of every month, from 3pm-7pm.
Freebase will be holding “office hours” for anyone who wants to stop by and discuss our platform, API, open data, or any other...
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| x Netflix keys in Freebase | The Freebase Blog | Oct 1, 2008 11:48:25PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=322 |
Today Netflix announced their new API!
We’ve been working for a while to match up Netflix Movie IDs with Film topics in Freebase, and have about 23,000 keys so far. This means you can search for Netflix movies using all the metadata that’...
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| x Announcing the Freebase Hack Day, November 8th 2008 | The Freebase Blog | Oct 9, 2008 7:05:17PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=330 |
Mark it in your calendar right now: on November 8th, Freebase will be hosting a Hack Day here at our offices in San Francisco.
If you’ve been to any of our recent user group meetings, you’ve probably heard about our forthcoming...
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| x Data mob: Events without dates | The Freebase Blog | Oct 7, 2008 7:18:14PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=323 |
This week’s data mob uses one of the saved views created during last week’s data mob.
Using this saved view of events with no dates associated with them, choose an event or events and add the dates. Easy!
Remember that you can sort or...
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| x Space missions on Freebase | The Freebase Blog | Oct 9, 2008 1:04:40AM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=328 |
As part of this week’s data mob, some of us have been filling out dates and times on Freebase’s collection of space missions.
Take a look at this timeline of results. The colours indicate the space programme responsible for the...
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| x Microsoft’s Political Streams uses Freebase data | The Freebase Blog | Oct 9, 2008 8:53:23PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=332 |
Have you seen the new Political Streams website from Microsoft Live Labs? It tracks the most talked-about news and blog stories in the political arena, and when you click through to people or places like Sarah Palin or Saudi Arabia, the information...
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| x The evolving filter view | The Freebase Blog | Oct 10, 2008 8:01:43PM UTC | http://blog.freebase.com/?p=324 |
We’ve done a fairly major overhaul to the navigation and functionality of the filter/table page. The new navigation should make it easier to view the data, pushing the content higher on the page and moving some secondary functions behind a less...
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