[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Tim Kientzle]

In Freebase, a "tag" is just a degenerate "type" with no properties. 
Anyone can already create personal types ("tags") and attach them to 
Freebase topics in any way they like.

Tim Kientzle


Alec Flett wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:19:57 -0700, Jason Douglas <jason at metaweb.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> If this is the goal, how about adding categories and/or tags that
>> could be mapped to Freebase topics?  Think of the interesting
>> queries!  :-)
>>
> 
> One idea is that there are already "tags" in freebase - 2.6 million of  
> them in fact
> 
> we just need a "related topics" property on the blog, and it can point to  
> existing topics..i.e. if you have a blog about movies, the "tag" is  
> /topic/en/film, a.k.a. the "Film" topic.
> 
>   if we want to get really fancy we can come up with a "blog topic" type  
> that has a reverse link, so that when you are looking at a topic and there  
> are blogs about it, then it shows up automatically.
> 
> This is how "Film Subject" works right now:  
> http://www.freebase.com/view/filter/film/film_subject. See  
> http://www.freebase.com/view/topic/en/mafia for an example of it in action.
> 
> Alec
> 
>> -jason
>>
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 11:58 PM, Liz Henry wrote:
>>
>>> Kirrily and I are talking about a project to add blogs and bloggers to
>>> Freebase.  This could be approached many different ways, but here's
>>> one
>>> way to start.
>>>
>>> Basically it's a nuisance to try and find out about existing blogs.
>>> There are just too many.
> 
> 
>