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I’m amazed at how little attention is being paid to Freebase. Freebase is going to take off once it gets more traction. It needs several more large data inputs from sources like Wikipedia before it will start to take off. Now we have widgets for exposing Freebase data.
Mjt is an open source templating engine for pulling Freebase data onto your website or into an app. You add a few lines of javascript (the script lives at their site) and can pull in live information about people, places, movies, albums or anything listed. It’s still early, between version 0.4 and 0.5, but you can start using the service if concurrently logged in to Freebase.

Go upload some data and take the rest of the day off.

When it comes to collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data, Freebase is front of mind. Today I read about the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. Is one less evil than the other?
Who will make it easier to add/extract the data?

While researching Metaweb and Freebase, I came across Danny Hillis’s article in Edge. A continuation of an earlier piece he wrote in 2004 about advanced Internet-based learning tools.

Addendum to “Aristotle: The Knowledge Web” continues the discussion, with various smart minds weighing in on the topic of machine-based learning.

This is an incredible article, a clear roadmap to the future of learning. Definitely worth a read if you like to pay attention to what’s next.