[Developers] new Freebase application .. genealogy of influence browser

[Will Moffat]

Hi Martin,

> http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

Cool browser. This definitely made a dent in my productivity this  
morning ;-)

> The goi browser project is not open source at the moment.

Will it be later?


Some issues/ideas I had while browsing:

There's a conflict between dragging nodes around and navigating. The  
click for dragging is also treated as a navigation click and loads a  
new page.

You should create an entry for your app on Freebase (of type Freebase  
Application). Then link to your app to its topic so that users can  
find out more about it + leave comments.

I really like the idea of using thumbnails of the people as bread- 
crumbs to show your trail. How about highlighting the thumbnail if you  
mouse-over their name on the graph, and vice-versa.

What are your thoughts on faceted-browsing? It would be really cool if  
you could highlight or just navigate poets, or women, or Scotsmen.

regards,
--Will