Factual wants to be the center of the web’s open data
The team behind Factual, a website that’s launching its beta test today, has an ambitious goal — to become the central location where people share, find, and mash-up data.
Founder Gil Elbaz points to sites like the Open Directory Project and MusicBrainz, as promising examples of how to share and collaborate on data about the web and music, respectively, and there are other examples, particularly around government data. But Elbaz says he wants Factual to be… Continue Reading
Opposing Views raises $1.25M to explain complicated issues
A Los Angeles startup called Opposing Views has raised $1.25 million to continue building a new kind of discussion site. We won’t get a chance to see the site until its public test this summer, but chief executive Russell Fine says Opposing Views will bring together a wide range of experts to help the public learn about different issues.
Even though I haven’t seen Opposing Views in action, it sounds promising. Fine — who previously co-founded… Continue Reading