Pic Of The Day: Freebase

Alan Connor | 11:05 UK time, Monday, 8 September 2008

Above is Kirrily Robert who came to the Broadcast Centre late in August to talk about Freebase, "an open, shared database of the world's knowledge". She gave FM&T and anyone else interested an overview on how it works and some of its applications and APIs. And here are the slides:

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Alan Connor is co-editor, BBC Internet Blog.

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1. At 2:19pm on 08 Sep 2008, Frankie Roberto wrote:
Ha, nice pic! She'll be pleased with that...

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2. At 3:59pm on 08 Sep 2008, christopherstreet wrote:
"Freebase"? Really? Let's name our product after the precursor to the crack epidemic, which consigned thousands of inner-city residents to a life of crime and poverty. Is that an oversight, or trying to be cool? What would Grandmaster Flash say?

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3. At 12:52pm on 09 Sep 2008, dcacooper wrote:
I think it is more likely a portmanteau of the words "Free" and "Database" devised by people who don't get out enough.

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