The Needlebase Blog

Needlebase to be retired June 1, 2012

Written by Justin Boyan Wednesday, 18 January 2012 00:00

We've been hard at work planning how to best integrate Needlebase's technology with Google's portfolio, which includes structured-data initiatives like Fusion Tables, Google Refine, Public Data Explorer, and Freebase. As we focus on our next steps, needlebase.com will be retired on June 1. To ensure our community of users has time to export any needed data, the service will remain fully operational until then.

We're looking forward to sharing future product developments as soon as we can. On behalf of the Needlebase team, thank you for all your feedback and support.

API Keys

Written by Laurence Brothers Thursday, 08 September 2011 17:45

On Friday September 9 we made a change to the way our APIs work. If you are using any Needlebase APIs, read this post to prevent your scripts from failing.

The Beautiful Data

Written by glenn mcdonald Monday, 18 July 2011 15:54

On 17 July, Japan won the 2011 Women's World Cup. Here is our statistical hyperindex of all of Women's World Cup History. It tells many stories, but the one for today is probably the 5-Cup career of Japan captain Homare Sawa.

New Rules for Keys

Written by glenn mcdonald Wednesday, 13 July 2011 15:33

This week's update includes a small change to the rules for keys in your data models.

Gmail logins

Written by glenn mcdonald Thursday, 09 June 2011 15:00

If you signed up (or sign up) with a Gmail account, you can now use that account to login via OpenID, and not have to worry about a separate password!

Thread at SemTech

Written by glenn mcdonald Tuesday, 07 June 2011 15:53

Here's the written version of the lightning intro to Thread, Needle's query language, that glenn presented at the SemTech 2011 conference in San Francisco:

Thread: A Path-Based Query Language for Graph Databases

UI Changes to Modeling

Written by glenn mcdonald Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:15

This week's update of needlebase.com introduces some changes to how you build and edit the data models behind your Needle databases.

Quantifying Skepticism

Written by glenn mcdonald Friday, 22 April 2011 14:38

Tweet from @chr1stianh:

@needlebase thanks for making this article possible http://t.co/LCURKbU

You're welcome! And that was only the beginning of what we can do.

Google Acquires ITA

Written by Justin Boyan Friday, 08 April 2011 17:06

Google's acquisition of ITA Software, including ITA's Needlebase project, was completed on April 12. We will continue to operate and innovate as usual; we've got some great new features rolling out this spring! To learn more about the acquisition, read Google's blog entry and ITA's press release.

Data lovers wanted!

Written by Justin Boyan Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:14

The Needlebase team is growing! We have multiple openings for a Semantic Database Curator and Tester, that is, someone to work with Needlebase all day to build great demo databases, help customers get started with their own databases, test new Needlebase features before they're released to the public, and write scripts to automate repetitive data-cleaning and testing tasks. Both full-time and internship positions are available. Jobs are at ITA Software's Google's offices in Cambridge, MA. For more details and to apply, click here!