Announcing Freebase TopicBlocks
Posted by skud on
October 21st, 2009
We’ve been working hard on a new tool to help you enhance your website with Freebase content. It’s called TopicBlocks and you can check it out at http://www.freebase.com/topicblocks/.
TopicBlocks let you add facts, pictures, and descriptions, and related topics to your webpage or blog post, and works for any of Freebase’s 8.4 million topics.
This is what a TopicBlock looks like:
GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent…
Initial release dateNov 17, 1995
TaglineYou know the name. You know the number.,No limits. No fears. No substitutes.,
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You don’t need to install any plugins or custom tools — you can just cut and paste HTML wherever you want it to embed a Topic Block. You can also customise the layout to suit your own preferences:
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub) (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་དོན་འགྲུབ་; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-’grub; Chinese:…
Date of birthJul 6, 1935
Country of nationalityTibet

The American Revolution is the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen of Britain’s colonies in…
Start date1775
End date1783

Try it out and let us know what you think!
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