{"id":950,"date":"2007-08-26T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/26\/freebase-is-live\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:40","slug":"freebase-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/08\/26\/freebase-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebase is live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/freebase_logo.gif\" alt=\"Freebase logo\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebase.com\">Freebase<\/a> has now opened its doors to anyone, at least for those who just want to browse and search. Looks like you&#8217;ll have to wait a while longer if you&#8217;re wanting to contribue. I&#8217;m still really interested in what Freebase <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/19\/freebase-im-in\/\">brings to the party<\/a>; how it compares and is different to Wikipedia &#8211; but most of all what such an open API can do for those of us mashing up data from across the web. When I get time (in about 2028 at this rate..) I&#8217;ll have a long hard look at their API and try a few ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, there&#8217;s some lovely mashups already built &#8211; see for example <a href=\"http:\/\/kidbombay.com\/clients\/freebase\/filmSpin\/\">CineSpin<\/a> which is not only elegant and rather beautiful to look at but also extremely content rich, and (gasp) useful, too. There are more examples <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebase.com\/view\/filter?id=%2Ffreebase%2Fmetaweb_application\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freebase has now opened its doors to anyone, at least for those who just want to browse and search. Looks like you&#8217;ll have to wait a while longer if you&#8217;re wanting to contribue. I&#8217;m still really interested in what Freebase brings to the party; how it compares and is different to Wikipedia &#8211; but most &#8230; <a title=\"Freebase is live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/08\/26\/freebase-is-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Freebase is live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}