I wrote a few days ago about building systems bottom up. We’re hoping to apply this approach to The Music Database. And we’re going to document our sucesses and failures as we go.
The system we’re using for this is called FireCore. I’ll talk in more detail about it later, but for now I’ve written [...]

In 1997, after leaving NIWEB, but before starting BlackStar, I launched The Music Database. It was a simple concept, with big plans. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), was one of the most useful sites on the Web [at this point it hadn't yet been sold to Amazon]. But there was no equivalent for music. A [...]