Freebase, Flickr and Machine Tags

Busy day.

I made the Flickr API in Freebase / Acre to a very limited extent (patches welcome!); and then on top of that, did a very basic find things on flickr tagged with wikipedia tags that can be attached to freebase.

The next steps? More API, more automated photo attaching, better authoring tools, etc.

Good Press

In the news again - here's an article.

Talking to 400 or so brokers, John Flavell said...

At the height of the crisis - March, April and May - time to unconditional [loan] approval at NAB Broker ballooned to 30 days.

However, since then, he said the bank had addressed a number of issues around the approval process - including those relating to valuations, verification and mortgage insurance - with the result that approvals on average were now back down to nine days.

Nice to know your work has an effect on others.

Good Relations, meet Freebase

Freebase Products, with RDFa of Good Relations in them.

What does it mean?

Well, if you were to gather up all of the RDF about Dyson DC25 Upright Ball Vacuums, you could find a product listing (try the 'see also' links) from Ebay, Amazon, etc etc.

It also means that this will all show up in Yahoo's index, possibly Google's too.

Match something in xpath regardless of xmlns prefix

//*[local-name()="Foo"]

Burke Marine Sailing Gloves

I'm a fan of my Burke Short Finger Leather Sailing Glove.

The only downside: they get very dirty very quickly.

Playdar, your local music agent

Playdar is a content resolving service for your music.

It's essentially a semantic web agent - but with no RDF around to add in that 'semantic' part.

A website asks your browser for permission to play tracks, much like Songbird offers, and it allows you to index / search your music.

More importantly, it's possible to search your friend's music, auto-magically, and stream from there. Or at least wired claims so.

I'll wait and see if it ends up more polished.

The internet provides

Multiple mouse cursors? The internet provides.