Nick,

I noticed the freebase.com website requires invitation, do you have access
to it? Also, the license of the service is free for non-commercial only, do 
you have any considerations in this topic? How will this affect the
adoption of new developments?
Also, custom metadata repositories and replication (commercial services) do 
not seem feasible with freebase.com.

Regards,

-Urivan Flores-Saaib


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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:47:54 +0100 "Nick Johnson" wrote:

On 7/3/07, Urivan Saaib <saaib@ciberlinux.net> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> I was thinking of something ala DNS, where the application can discover
> pieces of metadata associated to real-world items (you name it) categorized
> in a standard an open way. Users could add/edit/remove their own choices to
> customize what they want from their devices (getting closer to/getting far
> from vs state/status of the element associated to metadata.
>
> This could bring a benefic impact on the number/type of applications
> developed not only for OpenMoko but for any device that could gain access
> to a GPS hardware.

Coincidentally, I was just thinking about integration with Freebase
(http://www.freebase.com/), which would accomplish most of what youlist. :)

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