HOUSINGNEWS REPORT
SPLITTING THE ATTOM
Streaming Your Own Property Data Playlist
BY TODD TETA CTO, ATTOM DATA SOLUTIONS
Two decades ago assembling a playlist of your 10 favorite songs was a bit of a nosebleed. First you would go to the (brick-and- mortar) store and purchase 10 different CDs, each containing one of your favorite songs. Or alternatively mail-order those same CDs through the now-defunct BMG Music Club — remember that! — and wait for them to arrive.
that track before ejecting and inserting the next CD (the recording functionality of tape cassettes had an advantage over CDs in this regard, allowing for the creation of those now wonderfully nostalgic mix tapes). Fast forward five years to 2002 and those same 10 songs on your playlist could be downloaded individually from the Internet thanks the advent of iTunes and iPods, followed soon by other data storage devices that allowed users to more quickly and selectively store music files.
Fast forward another five years to 2007 and those same 10 songs could be streamed over the Internet on-demand thanks to the rise of services such as Spotify and Pandora. And in the last 10 years the availability of that streaming has exploded thanks to those streaming services creating a multitude of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), allowing developers to quickly integrate the streaming technology into third-party applications.
Second, pop each CD into a CD player, advance to the appropriate track and play
JUNE 2017
ATTOM DATA SOLUTIONS • P17
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