Strands
Strands is the world's leading Recommendation services company which owns subsidiaries MyStrands, MoneyStrands, PartyStrands, BusinessStrands and the SocialStrands and the StrandPlayer among other technologies.[1]
Strands develops recommendation and personalization technologies to help people discover new things. Strands' patent-pending Social Recommender is capable of automatically learning people's tastes and how their preferences evolve over time. It can be used to generate real-time recommendations in a vast number of domains.
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Business
Strands is structured in three main Business Units:
Operates Strands, an end-user oriented life-streaming tool to help people discover new things based on their real-life and on-line activities. [2]
Services
Strands Business Solutions
Commercializes Strands Social Recommender as an easy-to-use Strands hosted service. A growing number of retailers are using Strands plug-and-play interfaces to help their end-users discover the long-tail content on their sites. Every week millions of users receive personalized recommendations generated by Strands.
BizStrands
OpenStrands
Most of Strands' services are created on top of a common set of APIs that Strands make accessible to developers through openStrands.
Strands Personal Finance
Develops moneyStrands, an end-user oriented personal finance management tool that uses Strands Social Recommender to help people find new ways to save money. Strands Personal Finance also licenses Strands' patent-pending technology to banks in countries where moneyStrands does not operate. Hundreds of thousands of users are now managing their personal finances using Strands' proprietary technology.
MoneyStrands
- MoneyStrands: https://money.strands.com/
- MoneyStrands mobile: https://money.strands.com/mobile
Strands Social Discovery
Strands
- Strands - LifeStream service: http://strands.com
SocialRecommender
- Social Recommendation: http://corp.strands.com/social-recommendation
MyStrands
MyStrands is probably the single most excellent example of how a Recommender System should work. It logs your music interests by monitoring which music tracks you listen to (through plug-ins, which are available for Win-Amp, iTunes, WindowsMediaPlayer and REAL Media Player) and then tries to create a profile for you with personalized recommendations.[3]
- MyStrands: http://mystrands.com
Recommender System Conference
Strands is a key sponsor for the Recommender Systems Conference for 2008.
Recommender System Contest 2008
There will be a special contest encouraging entrepreneurs, academics and business users alike to submit their Recommendation Engine projects. The contest will be open to all registrants who are working on an interesting Recommendation Technology.[4]
Resources
- OpenStrands (open-source aspect of MyStrands, enabling APIs, etc): http://openstrands.com
External Links
- wikipedia: Strands
- wikipedia: MyStrands
- Strands, Blog: http://blog.strands.com/
- Strands PhotoStream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/strands/
- Recommendation Engine MyStrands Expands War Chest to $55m to Go Beyond Music: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mystrands_55m.php
- Thanks to everybody who attended Recked. Presentations are now available!: http://blog.strands.com/2009/01/28/recked-presentations/
- Strands Launches Plug-and-Play Product Recommendation Engine for eCommerce: http://linux.sys-con.com/node/587042
- Strands loses Expensr founders six months after buying their company: http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/30/strands-loses-expensrs-founders-six-months-after-buying-their-company/
- Strands shuts down MyStrands social music service: http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/strands-shuts-down-mystrands-social-music-service
- moneyStrands iPhone App Gets a Makeover: http://blog.strands.com/2009/08/14/moneystrands-iphone-app-gets-a-makeover/
- moneyStrands Now Supports 44 Currencies: http://blog.strands.com/2009/08/24/moneystrands-now-supports-44-currencies/
- Manual file upload option has arrived!: https://money.strands.com/blog/2009/07/manual-file-upload-option-has-arrived
- Looking for a Deal? 10+ Websites That Will Save You Money: https://money.strands.com/blog/2009/08/looking-deal-10-websites-will-save-you-money
- SkyMall Selects Strands Social Recommender(TM) for Personalized Product Recommendations: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS184511+21-Oct-2008+BW20081021
- Baynote, Strands, RichRelevance — will they survive the “recommendation engine” consolidation?: http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/22/baynote-strands-richrelevance-will-they-survive-the-recommendation-engine-consolidation/
References
- ↑ Strands, inc: http://strands.com
- ↑ Strands - Company Overview: http://corp.strands.com/
- ↑ http://mystrands.com
- ↑ Recommender Systems Contest info: http://www.mystrands.com/corp/strands-awards.vm
