VentureBeat - Latest Comments in MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million

Re: MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million

Tomas — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:07:56 -0000

I was personally disappointed from last.fm recommendation engine, so my take is; another music community site. I believe the next best thing is a community site WITH AN EDGE regarding recommendation. There have been some talks about meemix.com. I just registered to there Beta. If I understood correctly, they combine member behavior and music discovery to provide a station based on personal taste! Let me know if you get invited.

Re: MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million

Dan Kaplan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:09:13 -0000

Marshall: Points well taken. The site and press release did not do a great job conveying that they were more than an attempt to emulate Last.fm, but I should have looked harder. Marshall's post can be found here:

http://www.ajax-blog.com/pa...

Re: MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:55:50 -0000

Dan, speaking only as someone who has written about MyStrands before I think you're not giving them a fair shake here. Their mobile and groups functionalities extend into things like a commercial product for bars and clubs that incorporates requests by SMS, photo sharing, etc. I'm not a big user of the service, but they are certainly more than a Last.fm knock off :)