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Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last

Staff researcher David François Huynh has created an interesting tool for browsing semantic database Freebase, called Freebase Parallax.

Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into

If Freebase is an "open shared database of the world's knowledge," then Thinkbase (found via information aesthetics) is

Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side

For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search. Any technology that stands a chance

Freebase, the first product of semantic web company Metaweb, is an open, semantically marked up database of information

The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity.