June 2011
1 post
The Echo Nest "puddle" and artist entity...
(Cross posted from my post at the Echo Nest blog, with additions)
It’s the year 2006 and co-Founder Brian and early Nest developer Ryan were trying to figure out how to associate the world of free text on the internet to musical artists. We already were crawling tens of thousands of documents a day (now millions!) but a Google-style index of unstructured text about music was not our goal....