Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels
Factual is setting out to get people to create as many open databases as possible by providing tools for creating table son any topic, embedding them and sharing them. There are already hundreds fo thousands of tables on Factual, dome large some small. For instance, Creative Commons created a database filled with Websites using Creative Commons licenses that contains 4 million rows. All the data in Factual is editable in a wiki-like fashion and is available through Factual APIs.
via techcrunch.com
sounds very interesting indeed. we need something like this in germany.
