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Oct 13, 2009

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Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one of the core component of the search giant's AdSense contextual advertising product. Factual, which is mostly geared towards developers, is somewhat similar to Freebase, though Factual allows for a more free-form approach to building a database than Freebase. Factual provides users and developers with tools to create, contribute and mash up open data on any subject.

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Factual also announced that Esther Dyson has joined the company's board of advisors.

For now, Factual obviously only offers a relatively small repository of databases, though the company's current focus is on getting more developers to to use its service and on bringing as much data as possible into the system.

Getting Data into Factual.

To enter data, users could obviously tediously enter the data field by field, or upload spreadsheets in most of the standard formats. The service also provides a number of easier wa

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