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2010
- MIT Technology Review: Wikipedia to embrace the Semantic Web? (Freebase and DBPedia mentioned)
- Commercial Intelligence: Is Freebase worth much?
Gridworks posts
- Anthony DeBarros: Test Drive: Gridworks 1.1
- Christopher Groskopf: Data normalization par excellence–the gift of Freebase Gridworks
- Jon Udell: PowerPivot + Gridworks = Wow
- Jon Udell: Freebase Gridworks: a power tool for data scrubbers
See also: "What people say" on the Gridworks Wiki
Google acquisition
- Basic announcement posts: TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Fast Company.
- Tom Morris: First thoughts on Google acquisition of Metaweb
- SEO by the Sea: Google gets smarter with named entities
2009
- ReadWriteWeb: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
- Jon Udell: Visualizing Nobel Peace Prize winners in Freebase
- IT Conversations: Stefano Mazzocchi on Freebase and entity reconciliation
- ReadWriteWeb: Common Tag brings standards to Metadata
- ReadWriteWeb: Amazon exposes 1 terabyte of public data to developers
2008
- Press release: Metaweb Raises $42.5 Million led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital
- ReadWriteWeb: Metaweb's Freebase now 60% larger than English Wikipedia
- ReadWriteWeb: Thinkbase: Mapping the world's brain
- ReadWriteWeb: Freebase Parallax taunts us with awesome semantic web video
2007
- Press release: Metaweb Names Thomas Layton CEO
- O'Reilly Radar: Freebase will prove addictive
- VentureBeat: Freebase, the database, wants to be global brain
- The Economist: Sharing What Matters
- NY Time: Startup aims for database to automate web searching
- TechCrunch: This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and kills us all
- O'Reilly Radar: Different approaches to the Semantic Web
- Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Emergent Structure vs. Intelligent Design
- ZDNet: Metaweb: Creating the world's searchable global brain
- Jon Udell: Like a moth to the Freebase flame
- Johannes la Poutré: Freebase: Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Open Business: Wikipedia for data: Freebase
- Web Pro News: Freebase: the stem of a global brain?
- ReadWriteWeb: The new era of semantic apps
- ReadWriteWeb: Freebase: dispelling the skepticism
- ReadWriteWeb: Semantic search: the myth and reality
- ReadWriteWeb: 10 semantic apps to watch
- Hubert Guillaud: Freebase, la machine à “créer les synapses du cerveau global” (French) Google translation
