While unscripted conversations are a wonderful way to achieve an engaging and fresh dialog, especially with a capable and intuitive host/instigator like Jon, they also present the danger of mis-characterizing certain aspects of the conversation itself.

It didn’t occur to me during my last interview, but several people inside Metaweb told me that I made it sound like Freebase loaded directly IMDB data while what I should have specified is that we loaded the IMDB ‘identifiers’ along with our movie data. This allows, for example, somebody that looks for a movie in Freebase to be able to look for the same movie in IMDB, but the data in Freebase and the data in IMDB come from different sources.

I apologize for not having been specific enough on the nature of what part of the IMDB data (just their items identifiers) we loaded into Freebase.