[Developers] Freebase Zeitgeist

[Alec Flett]

I've added a few new features lately, to help with data entry:

1) showing the rising/falling status of the trends, as reported by  
google trends
2) striking out topics that are currently marked for deletion
3) a new "split view" - click the icon next to the trend - this shows  
the list of topics, some results from searching google news, and a  
frame for the topic view, so you can do some minor editing.

(and no, I'm not sure why the "x empty fields" doesn't seem to work  
when the topic view is in an iframe...)

I haven't made the split view very prominent just yet because I am  
still working on new features and it still breaks from time to time.

Alec

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Alec Flett wrote:

> 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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