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Freebase.com will be a public service free database which anyone can contribute to.
How do people use Freebase.com?
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Search Wikipedia for “User Experience” and you get a pretty accurate page. The usual “academic” links are included. The rules on external links are clear - they can’t be commercial. So there’s Don Norman - commercial site for the Neilson-Norman consultancy… Peter Morville TOTALLY commercial “UX” blog… UX Matters blog - a great site run [...]

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