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New data dumps     The Freebase Blog Jul 9, 2008 11:01:03PM UTC
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...
Congratulations evening, creator of our 4 millionth topic     The Freebase Blog Jul 9, 2008 11:14:50PM UTC
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...
Data mob: Bedtime stories     The Freebase Blog Jul 15, 2008 6:55:38PM UTC
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,...
Tip: Type constrained searches     The Freebase Blog Jun 27, 2008 4:41:22PM UTC
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...
Data mob: Least Developed Countries     The Freebase Blog Jul 2, 2008 10:33:50PM UTC
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...
Competition: Freebase’s 4 millionth topic     The Freebase Blog Jul 2, 2008 7:51:07PM UTC
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...
Data mob: places of worship     The Freebase Blog Jun 26, 2008 7:29:34PM UTC
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...
3.995 million — and counting     The Freebase Blog Jul 7, 2008 5:46:42PM UTC
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...
200k new topics!     The Freebase Blog Jun 26, 2008 12:32:10AM UTC
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...
Using the filter/table view     The Freebase Blog Jun 26, 2008 4:50:02PM UTC
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...
A3.25 Release Notes     The Freebase Blog Jul 15, 2008 11:56:40PM UTC
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...
New on Freebase: new user homepage     The Freebase Blog Jul 15, 2008 11:57:24PM UTC
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...
Freebase at OSCON     The Freebase Blog Jul 22, 2008 1:39:01AM UTC
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...
Schema editing made simple(r)     The Freebase Blog Jul 16, 2008 4:08:42PM UTC
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...
Reusing properties: the greatest form of flattery?     The Freebase Blog Jul 17, 2008 5:39:54PM UTC
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...
Save me! Storing filtered views on Freebase…     The Freebase Blog Jul 24, 2008 1:06:58AM UTC
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...
How are you using Freebase’s data dumps?     The Freebase Blog Jul 22, 2008 9:48:58PM UTC
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...
A3.26 Release Notes     The Freebase Blog Jul 24, 2008 1:06:43AM UTC
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...
Let’s talk about the new discuss     The Freebase Blog Jul 24, 2008 7:24:50PM UTC
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...
Data mob: Past Olympic Games     The Freebase Blog Jul 24, 2008 11:19:00PM UTC
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...
Delegating properties in schema editor     The Freebase Blog Jul 25, 2008 3:37:32PM UTC
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...
Help!     The Freebase Blog Jul 29, 2008 12:27:34AM UTC
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...
Data mob: Olympic athletes by country     The Freebase Blog Jul 29, 2008 7:28:27PM UTC
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...
Ways to stay in touch     The Freebase Blog Jul 31, 2008 9:37:23PM UTC
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...
Data mob: this year’s Olympic teams     The Freebase Blog Aug 4, 2008 10:52:26PM UTC
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...
Freebase user group meeting postponed; instead, beer!     The Freebase Blog Aug 5, 2008 5:53:08AM UTC
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...
Recent data loads: airports, saints, beer, quotations, and more     The Freebase Blog Aug 5, 2008 7:54:00PM UTC
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 ...
A3.27 Release Notes     The Freebase Blog Aug 6, 2008 7:51:54PM UTC
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...
The areas of your expertise     The Freebase Blog Aug 6, 2008 7:51:43PM UTC
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...
Freebase and geodata - a presentation from Where2.0     The Freebase Blog Aug 18, 2008 1:26:06PM UTC
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,...