Gyaan Sutra On entrepreneurship and technology

Freebase.com is a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. Reminds you of Wikipedia? Here is the FAQs reply to the question,

“How is Freebase different than the Wikipedia?
It’s an apple versus an orange: each is deliciously different. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with information arranged in the form of articles. Freebase is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people or software. Wikipedia and Freebase both appeal to people who love to use and organize information. In fact, many of the founding contributors to Freebase are also active in the Wikipedia community. Whenever Freebase and Wikipedia cover the same topic, Freebase will link to the Wikipedia article to make it easy for users to access the best of both sites.”

Based on the metaweb technology, this could be the next playground for you information hungry mosters.

Freebase would be machine and human readable. The API’s would be out soon enough.