the whole world burns

Freebase: “an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge”

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Most of the first-generation mashups have been limited to the data freely available from governments, sites with APIs etc.; I can't wait to see what we'll get now that they can use Freebase. I can't wait to use it myself, for that matter. Best of all, those magical letters: "CC-BY".

Piggy Bank - turn your browser into a mashup platform

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Piggy Bank plugins are site-specific screen-scrapers that extract structured data as RDF, which can be analyzed, sorted and connected at your leisure, or shared through a "semantic bank".

What the devil?

The Whole World Burns is the rephrase miniblog, containing links and other miscellaneous trifles.