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Freebase. Out of closed beta, although you still need an invite code to contribute. I hope they drop the JavaScript requirement for viewing content on the site.

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  1. Hey -
    We realized around launch time that we had gone a little overboard with the AJAX.

    We have an ongoing effort right now at to make our pages render without JavaScript.

    We'll be doing incremental updates over the next month or two, and I think you'll be pretty please with the results...

    Alec
    Front End Engineer, freebase

    Alec - 4th September 2007 04:38 - #

  2. Great to hear - the actual data model looks fantastic, I've been wanting a source like this for years.

    Simon Willison - 4th September 2007 10:02 - #

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