We just rolled out some updates to our site, the most obvious of which is a new look for the Freebase.com homepage:

On the left, we’re highlighting a handful of popular and trending topics, to showcase relevant information in Freebase. On the right, the week’s top users are also automatically generated, so if you are a regular contributor to Freebase you’ll probably see your user pic appear on our homepage from time to time.

In the middle of the page you’ll see some links to case studies about how site owners can integrate Freebase in their sites. Take a look at how Wall Street Journal, Bing, and Zemanta use Freebase data.

Also in this release, we’ve added an easy attribution wizard to make it easy for you to attribute Freebase when you use our data under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. We know it’s hard to read through reams of licensing policy, so hopefully this will make life a lot easier for anyone who wants to link back to us!

There’s more still to come, so watch for further improvements to our site over the next few weeks.