Freebase

To help promote awareness and use of Freebase, I have made a search plugin for use with Firefox. You can install it from this link [Updated] link.

For those of you who have not been introduced to Freebase, you may find this FAQ really useful. But in a nutshell, Freebase is a public collaboration to build a structured knowledge base akin to Wikipedia. Other similar projects include DBPedia and OpenCyc. You can find my profile here.

O Twine me...

My application to participate in the Twine beta was approved recently. There are introductions written about Twine [1] so I won't spend time trying to explain what it is. But the feedbacks that I've read recently have been mostly unfavourable [2, 3].

I'm not a fan of too many wannabes, but I think Twine has much to offer (I might be biased). Through the contributions from like-minded Semweb enthusiasts, I have learnt a bit more about the Semantic Web and many related topics. There are other topics that I have subscribed to, e.g. Adobe Flex , Artificial intelligence, Intelligent Agents and many more that you can subscribe to and share your knowledge. I have started two twines on Game theory and Data Privacy, and you are most welcome to join me if you are already a beta participant.

As a Twine member, I am given the opportunity to invite more users to the community. After a first round of offer to friends and colleagues, I still have quite a number of invites on hand. If you are keen to explore Twine, please leave a comment on my blog and I will get in touch with you as soon as possible. I will try my best to give out as many as I can, but please understand that I have only a limited number of invitations to send.