Metaweb/Freebase
27 August 2009

Bios

What is Metaweb?
• Technology company based in San Francisco
• 60 person team of engineers and software developers
• Well funded, long term outlook
• Focused on Freebase.com

What is Freebase?
• An database of “topics” - practical things like people, places,
business, movies, books, etc.
• A platform for building web applications with this data
• A community of users and companies, adding and grooming
data

Who is currently using Freebase?

Launched:

Startups

The Freebase platform
• Programmer APIs - MQL, media services, geo-queries,
webpage templating
• “Graph” data store - in memory; highly-scaleable
• Extensive caching for additional scaling and performance

Freebase Data

8.4 million entities (“topics”)

John Krasinski
Person, Actor

The Office (US)
TV Program
stars in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor

The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor

The Office (US) Leatherheads
TV Program Film
stars in starred in
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
attended
Brown University
College/university

Sources of topic data
• Wikipedia
• Open sources (Musicbrainz, OpenLibrary, Netflix, etc.)
• Companies (Microsoft, WSJ, Juggle, Popstra)
• Freebase community

100K transactions a day

100K transactions a day
no problem

> 100K transactions

> 100K transactions
talk to us

Freebase Features

Freebase data in apps

Freebase suggest for search

Related topics

Web links
imdb.com en.wikipedia.org
/nm1150362 /john_krasinski
John Krasinski
Person, Actor
ew.com people.com
/ew/article/0,,476450,00.html /people/john_krasinski

Store your own application data

Quality management

Data “games”

ACRE development
environment

WSJ Widget

Other cool apps

Popstra

Freebase cubed

Industry Browser

Wealth of free data

Free high-performance
feature-rich platform

Community of users sharing
data and software