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I just finished my hack of JQuery In Place Editor to work with Freebase Suggest. I call it “JQuery Suggest In Place”. Its pretty much the same as JQuery Edit In Place, except it is stripped down a bit to only give you an input text field with a bound Freebase Suggest. You can pass [...]

I’ve been doing a fair amount of work with OAuth and OpenSocial for Freebase recently. Its been interesting to learn about the differences between 2-legged OAuth (aka Signed Fetch) and 3-legged or “normal mode” OAuth. Essentially, normal 3-legged OAuth facilitates permissions delegation between an application which wants to do something on your behalf and a [...]

Freebase Suggest is a little JavaScript (and jQuery) widget for adding Freebase‘s auto-complete and search API reconciliation features to any of your text boxes. While this might sound a bit strange or pointless initially, its actually incredibly useful in many applications Imagine you are running a site for your own music reviews. You have a [...]

DNS for things Freebase is extremely useful for many things, but one of the most simple is as a sort of “DNS for things”. Take for example films, computer games, programming languages. There are various disparate databases, with their own keys, all over the internet. It would be difficult to write an application to understand [...]