[Developers] Freebase Zeitgeist

Alec Flett alecf at metaweb.com
Tue Mar 3 18:42:27 UTC 2009


As inspired by another internal project that will hopefully be much  
better than this one, here is a simple acre app which simply does the  
google "Hot Triends" searches on freebase, and then shows you the types:

http://zeitgeist.alecf.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/

Google updates their feeds hourly, and these searches are updated in  
realtime, so assuming a decent amount of activity, we should see this  
page change moment to moment....

so if you're ever thinking to yourself "I've got 5 minutes to spare,  
what random crap can I add to freebase?" this is the page for you :)

In particular, you can:
- type untyped topics (I want someone to figure out how to type  
"Aquamarine")
- flag topics for deletion (such as "House and Senate career of John  
McCain, until 2000")
- flag duplicate topics (hmm... 4 untyped "Washington Nationals"  
topics, that's not right!)
- add topics that should be there, but aren't ("sakai rutgers" anyone?)

Have fun...

Alec


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