Shortipedia is a website that collects assertions from various sources on the semantic web and displays them in an easy to understand format. It finds information about requested topics from Wikipedia, SameAs.org, and Sindice. Users can bind linked entities, see data from related entities, add their own assertions, and integrate additional data. Key lessons learned include that semantic web data can be noisy, hard to understand, and labels are unreliable. Representing diverse knowledge and deciding semantics is also challenging.