Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase) 16 years ago
When I saw Metaweb in the headline what immediately sprang to mind was the excellent wikipedia they maintained for Neal Stephensons's "The Baroque Cycle". It was called Quicksilver wiki.
I myself learned about it from Stephenson himself during a presentation he did for the book in the now defunct Cody's Books in Berkeley. After 2-3 years of active growth the Quicksilver wiki disappeared from metaweb's site. I was wondering if Google will restore the wiki too?
Metaweb briefly mentioned at the end of this article in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(novel)