Capital Indoor Stadium Capital Indoor Stadium The Capital Indoor Stadium () is an indoor arena in 56 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, China that was built in 1968. It hosted matches between national table tennis teams of China and the United States in 1971; these matches were part of the exchange program known as "ping pong diplomacy". It has a capacity of 17,345 and a floor space of 54,707 square meters expanded from the old 53,000. It was renovated in 2001 to become a venue for the 2001 Summer Universiade. The stadium hosted one of the first NBA games in China, hosted on October
The Echo Nest The Echo Nest The Echo Nest is a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies. Based in Somerville, MA, the Echo Nest was a research spin-off from the MIT Media Lab to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music. Its creators intended it to perform music identification, recommendation, playlist creation, audio fingerprinting, and analysis for consumers and developers. On March 6, 2014 Spotify announced that they had acquired The Echo Nest. The Echo Nest was founded in 2005 from the dissertation work of Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman at the MIT Media Lab. In October