If you are at SXSW this year, be sure to attend the panel discussion on “Creating an Internet of Entities“. Factual’s own Tyler Bell will be joined by Drew Vogel (Sunlight Foundation), George Oates (Internet Archive), and Pete Warden (Jetpak Inc) in a discussion on how they are all each working to create an Internet [...]

We are pleased to report the availability of the official PHP driver for the Factual API. This driver wraps our Read, Crosswalk, Resolve, and Schema APIs, providing five-line access to our 55 million global places and other structured data. Examples Getting Started: First, get an API key from Factual. Add your oauth key and secret [...]

Watch Tyler Bell and Leo Polovets’s talk from Strata NYC 2011 (Thursday, 09/22/2011). Big Noise always accompanies Big Data, especially when extracting entities from the tangle of duplicate, partial, fragmented and heterogeneous information we call the Internet. The ~17m physical businesses in the US, for example, are found on over 1 billion webpages and endpoints [...]

The Internet is awash with data. Where ten years ago developers had difficulty finding data to power applications, today’s difficulty lies in making sense of its abundance, identifying signal amidst the noise, and understanding its contextual relevance. To address these problems Factual is today launching Resolve — an entity resolution API that makes partial records [...]

Tyler Bell, Director of Product at Factual, will be speaking at TechWeek in Chicago on the “Technology of Solving Big Problems” panel. He will be joined by Geoff Domoracki (Co-Founder, CEO of midVentures), Brandon Kessler (CEO of ChallengePost), and Dave Weekly (Founder of PBWorks). The panel will take place on Saturday, July 23 from 5:00 [...]