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| Aug 6, 2008 | Show Your Boss What You've Done All Day with ididwork | Another Y Combinator startup, ididwork, announced its launch yesterday. In short, the web-based service lets employees keep record of work they have completed. Employees can then submit a weekly or monthly report to their manager in the for... |
| Jul 22, 2008 | Baynote, Strands, RichRelevance — will they survive the “recommendation engine” consolidation? | With all the “recommendation” technology companies out there fighting for business, you’d think this is a tough market to be in.
By some counts, there are at least 50 to 100 active companies in this area.
But some companies, including Stran... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage | After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They a... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Why Data Portability is Important For Web Personalization | Fifteen or so years into the evolution of the web, we already have many of the key ideas and technologies in place to start describing and sharing personal preference information – or what we might colloquially call “taste” – in order to pe... |
| Mar 12, 2008 | MyStrands Offers $100k for Best Recommender Start-up | MyStrands is an ambitious start-up. It has so far raised $55 Million dollars in its quest to “lead the social recommendation industry” (the words the company used in its last funding announcement in December). We at ReadWriteWeb are followi... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | 10 Recommended Recommendation Engines | Alex Iskold just posted Rethinking Recommendation Engines, a product type that we here at ReadWriteWeb have explored a lot over the past year or so. In this follow-up post, we present 10 recommendation engines that we like. And we don’t inc... |
| Feb 5, 2008 | Vidoop Hires OpenID Foundation Chair Scott Kveton | Tulsa, Oklahoma based authentication service Vidoop announced today that it has hired Scott Kveton, Chair of the OpenID Foundation, to be the company’s VP of Open Platforms and the Director of the company’s new West Coast office in Portland... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | 38 free/cheap music sites — Welcome to the fray, Qbox! | Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to domin... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | VC 2.0 over in Europe? It barely began. | Overall venture capital investment in Europe fell last year, but investment in “Cleantech” rose. The news suggests that VCs are moving away from investments in Web 2.0 technology startups towards higher growth investments related to the boo... |
| 2008 | What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008 | Some people say that the bubble’s going to take a downturn in the next year or two – that huge numbers of copycat startups are going to shut down, people are going to be out of work and Web 2.0 cheerleaders are going to eat their (our) word... |
| Dec 14, 2007 | The Significance of YouTube’s New Swarm Tool | YouTube has begun experimenting with a visualization of related videos that’s a poor knock-off of the Digg Swarm visualization tool.
NewTeeVee says it’s more fun than Digg Swarm but I think it’s less useful and actually a bit nauseating to ... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | Recommendation Engine MyStrands Expands War Chest to $55m to Go Beyond Music | How do you navigate a nearly infinite world of digital data to find the best content for your tastes and needs? Our collective answer to this question is in its infancy, but Oregon based recommendation service MyStrands has now raised a who... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | MyStrands Completes B Round, $55 Million Raised To Date | Social music recommendation service MyStrands has completed the second half of their B round, raising an additional $24 million from Spanish Bank BBVA on top of the $25 million we reported earlier.
BBVA is a financial services group with mo... |
| Sep 21, 2007 | MatchMine Raises $10m for Media Recommendation Engine | MatchMine, a Massachusetts company building a cross-platform media recommendation engine, announced this morning that they have received a $10 million investment from The Kraft Group. The company released an early product called MyMovieMatc... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | MyStrands.TV Launched – It’s last.fm For Video | This morning MyStrands released a personalized online video service called MyStrands.TV. Immediately it reminded me of last.fm, because you can type in an artist or tag and it creates a custom “channel” for you. In fact, let’s be honest – i... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | Mystrands brings music discovery to online music videos | MyStrands, a service that provides recommendations, has launched a web site, Mystrands.tv, featuring clips of music videos and concert footage from YouTube.
While many companies offer ways of discovering new music, or new video, Mystrands i... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | MyStrands Launches Music Video Discovery Service, MyStrands.tv | MyStrands, provider of a music recommendation service, has launched a slick new website at MyStrands.tv for finding music videos hosted on YouTube.
Users can browse music videos by artist or genre and play them in a large player. The system... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | uPlayMe raises “multi-millions,” joins pile of music services | uPlayMe, the latest in a ever growing pile of companies offering a desktop application to let you connect with people through shared tastes in music, said it has raised a “multi-million” round of funding.
The New York company uses a recomme... |
| Aug 12, 2007 | Read/WriteWeb Files: Online Music | Every week we have a feature called Read/WriteWeb Files, in which we investigate a current hot topic or company in Web technology. This week we’re going to focus on Online Music, something that is becoming more and more prevelant as broadba... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | MyStrands Gets $25million Series B | Music discovery platform MyStrands has closed a Series B round of $25million led by Antonio Asensio, CEO of Grupo Zeta, Spain’s third largest media group, along with existing investors Debaeque and Sequal.
MyStrands delivers a product that ... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | What Will MyStrands Do With $25M? | Spain/US-based MyStrands announced today that it’s raised $25 Million “to lead the social recommendation industry”. MyStrands is a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and physical worlds. We wrote about MyS... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | MyStrands, Last.fm competitor, raises $25 million | Updated
Less than a month after CBS’s $280 million acquisition of Last.fm, Spain’s 25 year-old media mogul, Antonio Asensio, has led a $25 million second-round investment in Corvallis, Oregon-based MyStrands, a music recommendation site tha... |
| May 10, 2007 | Last.fm Adds Personalized Music Anywhere Widget | Last.fm launched an embeddable radio widget today that lets you add a personalized Last.fm radio station wherever Flash widgets are accepted.
The widget can play in three modes: a stream of what songs your recently listened to on Last.fm, h... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | MyStrands Mobile: Now With Community | Hot on the tail of Slacker comes another social music service, MyStrands Mobile. This S60 application offers music discovery as well as music sharing and builds on a library of 6 million tracks. You and your friends can share your current p... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | MyStrands Mobile: Series 60 Community Music Player | Hot on the tail of Slacker comes another social music service, MyStrands Mobile. This S60 application offers music discovery as well as music sharing and builds on a library of 6 million tracks. You and your friends can share your current p... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | MyStrands Mobile Adds Community To Streaming Audio | Symbian Series 60 users should take a look at MyStrands mobile, a compelling music sharing app that creates social playlists – you and your buds can share music – and discovery though tags and search. It even supports multiple languages so ... |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Next TechCrunch Event | The last two TechCrunch parties were a great success, and I particularly enjoyed meeting people that I knew only through blogging at the New York event last November. We’re in the planning stages of the next TechCrunch event, to be held mid... |
| Nov 16, 2006 | Let's Get This Party Started! | The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan.
The final guest list is here, although it doesn’t include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should have received an email confirmation of the pa... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | iLike Brings Free Indy Music to iTunes Recommendations | ILike is a new iTunes plug-in that will launch tomorrow and leverages free music from independent musicians at GarageBand.com to supplement its otherwise typical recommendations. ITunes plug-ins are becoming increasingly common but music re... |
| Sep 1, 2006 | Partystrands aims to be Last.fm + Digg for the jukebox | Partystrands is a music service launching next month that will bring together aggregated recommendations, voting and photos synchronized on location by mobile phone. Created by the Corvallis, Oregon and Barcelona, Spain based company MyStra... |
| Aug 16, 2006 | YouTube and Google seek to monetize music | Music was the impetus for the MySpace explosion and now YouTube and Google are both getting ready to leverage music as well. YouTube says it’s aiming to put every music video ever made on its site, a move that would take it further from bot... |