The future of Web is here

Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on Vimeo
If you want to do some research work on a topic, normally you would pop the browser and search the topic through Google or Wikipedia and click one by one the related URL link. And then extract all information into your notepad or words etc. This is tedious work and you wish that if there is another way, a much better way to help you out? Yes there is, read on.


The principle of this new kind of technology is called semantic web. It's kind of complicated way of handling a data if you ask me, because a single search will divided in several set instead of one to one search result.

Freebaseis one of the application out there that handle this kind of data. It is a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone.

But on top of Freebase, David Huynh has designed a novel browsing interface called Parallax where it enhance data result even further.

However, as I search through Freebase data through Parallax, the data that I found will depends how popular the topic is. Of course the the US president will hits lot set of data, but when I search the Malaysian Prime Minister for example, it only shows few things. Maybe we should let the Freebase mature first, or better let participate by becoming one of the contributor. You judge.