Remember Freebase.com?
2:42 pm July 5th, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
Me neither. Well apparently I signed up for their alpha program, so I’ll be playing with it for a little while today. Hopefully it will be cool, it better be (given that they a have been developing it for months, or at least so long that I could read something about it, sign up, and then completely forget about it).
I really don’t know what’s up with these super long beta periods. I signed up for for Foldera and it took them a few months to get back to me as well. I know development takes time but I’d like to see more announcements that are accompanied by a large-scale, or open, beta period. I don’t want to read about something, get interested and then have to wait six months. If that’s the case chances are I’m going to find another service that can do the same thing and not bother to move over to the one that originally caught my eye.
Back to Freebase, it’s an free database in which the information can be used for any purpose (commercial or non). It could be cool, or it could be another web 2.0 service that pops up make some headlines and then goes completely under the radar. We’ll see…
Edit: Apparently freebase is also a drug reference. Nice choice of a name there… This site deals with free databases about all sorts of topics, even blogs and bloggers.
