[Developers] freebase-suggest jquery plugin on GoogleCode

[Paul Lindner]

Actually what you're suggesting is more than sufficient.

For example, this would allow you to pick a geographic location and
plot it on a map using the data already retrieved.

Or, with the image ID one could grab the thumbnail without a round
trip lookup.

Thanks!

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:06:54PM -0700, Dae Park wrote:
> Since the user may select the item before the blurb content is  
> retrieved, the best we can do is either return the ids or urls of the  
> image and blurb. Then the data object may look like this:
> 
> {
>    id: aString,
>    name: aString,
>    type: [{
>      id: aString,
>      name: aString
>    },{
>      ...
>    }],
>    image: aString,     // url or id
>    article: aString    // url or id
> }
> 
> 
> -dae
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Paul Lindner wrote:
> 
> >Great work!
> >
> >I've successfully used this in an internal demo and am very happy with
> >the results.
> >
> >The only thing I'd add is passing in all local data in the callback.
> >That would save me from having to re-request data that may already be
> >present in a retrieved flyout (blurb, thumbnail info, full type info.)
> >
> >I'll be extracting the demo code and making it available in the next
> >few days.
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:57:58PM -0700, Dae Park wrote:
> >>We've packaged the autocomplete/suggest feature you've seen on
> >>freebase.com into a jquery plugin.
> >>
> >>http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/
> >>
> >>We hope others will find this feature useful in reconciling user
> >>inputs against topics in freebase.com.
> >>
> >>Here is some documentation:
> >>
> >>http://code.google.com/p/freebase-suggest/wiki/Usage
> >>
> >>If you have any suggestions, issues or want to join this project,
> >>please let me know.
> >>
> >>-dae
> >>
> >>daepark at metaweb.com
> >>daepark at gmail.com
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