901am reports on the first ever major Web 3.0 application, Freebase. Wait a minute, did they just say they’re trying to create a world database with all of the world’s information? I thought Google already did that. Oh wait, comprehensive as Google is, they still don’t have everything. But you can’t have everything, can you?

Danny Hillis has launched an early version of what might just be the the first major Web 3.0 application. The application called Freebase, has its aims right in line with those of Google. Hillis told the New York Times that, “We’re trying to create the world’s database, with all of the world’s information.”

In fairness, Freebase says it is supposed to add something that Google or even Wikipedia doesn’t have, as roughtype reports.

Freebase is a user-generated brain. Like Wikipedia, it allows people to freely add information to it, in the form of text or images or, one assumes, anything else that can be rendered digitally. But it also allows users to add “metadata” about the information – tags that describe what a word or picture is and how it relates to other information.

Give us a break guys. You reinvented the wheel and tried to give it another name (like Wheel 2.0? Or Wheel 3.0 perhaps?). I wonder what will happen to Freebase if Wikipedia and Google think about adopting the use of such metadata.

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