Freebase and the people behind it
Freebase is live and a lot of people are talking about it! The people and the concept behind this are (supposed to be) really cool. Rich Skrenta talks about the people behind it:
Danny Hillis is a computing legend, having founded a company to produce the Connection Machine, one of the first massively parallel computers and a very slick piece of work. John Giannandrea (”jg”) was a Netscape founder, and recently CTO of Tellme, which built a massive voice-recognizing telco application. He runs a tier-1 colocation business as a side hobby to his day jobs. Not just vision here but deep technical implementation experience.
Orielly has been talking about it too, though his response is more cautious.
Seems to be another step towards the realization of Web 3.0? After UGC (user generated content), time to get real meaning out of the web by interlinking information.