[Data-modeling] new Freebase application online: Thinkbase

[Christian Hirsch]

Hi Will,

thanks for the feedback.

you''ve listed a few good suggestions as well as some known bugs.
a couple of notes:
- I've looked into the Freebase-suggest search box but there was a problem
with the applet: DHTML-menus and applets don't like each other that much
(problem with the z-index). Maybe I will look at it again later. For now,
the list of search results will have to do for ambiguous queries.
- scroll-wheel zooming should work. Note that you might need to click into
the background of the graph first. It has also not been tested thoroughly.
What browser (version) and OS are you using?

Cheers,
Christian



On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Will Moffat <willmoffat at metaweb.com>
wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> > I've just added a new Freebase application: "Thinkbase" (
> http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz
> > )
>
> Nice, I really like it too.
>
> Some suggestions/feedback after playing around with it for 5 minutes:
>
> * Warn if Java not installed - I watched a blank screen for a minute
> waiting to see if anything would happen :-(
> * Some sort of progress bar - it's disconcerting when you think
> everything is loaded, start looking at the graph and all of a sudden
> 15 new things appear.
> * Freebase-Suggest for the search box
> * Scroll-wheel zooming
> * Numbers aren't showing Example:
> http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/index.html?q=/en/imec
>  doesn't show Number of employees or Revenue
> * Unicode chars aren't displaying properly:
> http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/index.html?q=/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000061222
>
> regards,
> --Will
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