Have you ever head of freebase? It’s a semantic alternative to the well-known wikipedia.

What are the benefits of a “semantic alternative”? The possibilities of exploration and combination of information are just amazing! For example, this video of Freebase Parallax shows how to list the schools in which republican U.S. presidents have put their children in a few seconds!



Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on Vimeo.

When freebase will be as rich as wikipedia (in terms of content), we will never want to use google or wikipedia again!