Google Acquires Metaweb To Make Search Smarter - I’m almost getting sick of noting every time Google buys a company I really like.
This one worries me a bit, as a lot of their work involves open data, and I hope that isn’t impeded. Metaweb’s Freebase was essentially started as a response to Google Base being a closed system. I guess we’ll see.
Freebase Gridworks: A power tool for data scrubbers « Jon Udell - I’ve been a fan of Freebase, it’s Parallax, and SIMILE, but I had no idea that they were all created by the same couple of people.
I just watched their two screencasts on the new Freebase Gridworks and I think I said wow-ed aloud three or four times while watching.
Freebase Parallax - when Freebase first came out as a sort of open version of Google Base, I doubted if it would come to fill that role.
Today Freebase has tons of data, and is really well designed and managed. This video of what you can do with one Freebase-based tool is truly amazing. Watch it.