A social itune?

Fabien just sent me this tool that seems highly interesting: MyStrands, a kind-of ‘social itune‘:

  • Explore Recommended Songs: Songs are recommended based on the song that is actively playing and recently played songs. You may read about a song and in most cases listen to a clip by clicking the arrow which will take you to the songs homepage at the MusicStrands website.
  • Explore Recommended Tags: Tags of interests are recommended realtime based on recently played songs. You may explore music related to the tag by clicking on the tag of interest.
  • Publish Playlists: You may tag and publish your active playlist by clicking the edit button next to your playlist tags. When you tag a playlist, the playlist is uploaded to the website and published.
  • Tag songs: You may add/edit tags for your active song clicking the edit button. When you add a tag, the tag is also added to the MusicStrands community for others to explore.

Why do I blog this? I am interested in social sharing phenomenon like this, besides I find it could be a powerful way to discover new something. I believe a lot in social navigation recommender systems like this.

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3 Responses to “A social itune?”

  1. Paul Tennent Says:
    October 13th, 2005 at 3:28 pm

    Maybe you might have a look at this paper we published in mobile hci 05 - it’s about proximity based social sharing of media and other files like RSS feeds on mobile devices.

    Paul Tennent, Malcolm Hall, Barry Brown, Matthew Chalmers, and Scott Sherwood (2005) Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms, short paper to appear in proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI05), Salzburg, Austria

    http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pt/publications.htm

  2. Wiley Wiggins Says:
    October 14th, 2005 at 12:55 am

    last.fm is similar it monitors itunes with a small app and uploads the info to a profile on their page. It’s social software based on music tastes with groups and reccomendations and it will create customized streaming radio based on your profile.

  3. Riad Says:
    October 14th, 2005 at 9:09 pm

    I went to interview people at MusicStrands for the campus newspaper (the headquarters is in my town).
    It is slightly different from LastFm since they offer 2 levels of recommendations: one is “local” based on the latest songs you played and the other , on their website, is based on your profile.
    Also the grouping of songs is different. You can use Itunes playlists to make grouping of songs and the system takes this into account.

    See the story here:
    http://www.iyne.org/2005/10/14/the-music-you-may-like-recommended-by-you/

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