Some of you might already know about Acre, Freebase’s hosted application development environment. For those who don’t, Acre provides an application editor, and an API and templating commands, that let you build applications that use Freebase data and host them on Freebase’s Acre server.

Anyone with an intermediate-level understanding of HTML and JavaScript can start right in with building Acre applications, but we’ve also developed a couple tutorials to show you how it’s done and introduce the Acre API and templating commands. The first one shows how to build an application that retrieves information from Freebase using a MQL query and then display the results. The second one takes the static features of the first tutorial a step further, by showing you how to create a user input that overwrites the MQL query, then display images associated with the results and click through to Freebase topics. On top of these there’s also a tutorial on how to build a Facebook app using Freebase data.

In the next week or so we expect to publish some more tutorials, including one on how to incorporate the Freebase autocomplete functionality in your applications, and another on how to create an app that writes to Freebase. If you have any questions, feedback, or comments about these or other Acre tutorials, be sure to let us know!