Invites for Strands.com, makes Friendfeed looks dumb

Written on October 9, 2008 – 12:43 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

One of the nice things of sending out a weekly newsletter, are the replies of our readers. Man, a lot of them are doing interesting things. Like Gabriel Aldamiz-Echevarria, Strands.com VP of communications. His company has been around during four years focusing on developing recommendation technologies to help people discover new things. Over the years they’ve raised $55 million in funding. Now they’ve used their technologies and money to develop a lifestreaming service, one that, Ars Technica says, has “big advantage” compared to Friendfeed. Interesting, uh?

Strands.com has all the regular lifestream things going on: sign up, fill in the RSS feeds forms, and see the content popping up along the way. But the main advantage I was refer to earlier, is that you can filter somebody’s or your own content on its type. So if you have this great friend X, who makes the best songs, but sucks at writing. You can only check his songs (and trying not to hear the lyrics). Why didn’t Friendfeed come up with that? It’s just too logical.

There’s also a tab within Strands.com showing some recommendations and hot content from across the network. That’s were Strands is using its recommendation muscles and where we, users, can discover new stuff.

At least, that is when you’re one of the first hundred to grab an invite with our promotion code thenextweb. Go to Strands.com, click “request an invitation to join Strands” and use the promo code. You will then get an email with the invitation code.

I hope you like that post!

The Next Web Blog covers start-up news from all over the world (not just the Valley), exciting new technologies and inspiring entrepreneurs. If you're new here, you may want to read our 'About' page and subscribe to our RSS feed.

Do you have a start-up that we should write about? Contact us! Thanks for visiting and hope you come back again!

ars technica, friendfeed, Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarria, rss, Strands.com

About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

Post that could be related to this post:

The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed Part 1: What Makes Friendfeed Special

Friendfeed is a site that primarily focuses on aggregating all your online activities and using them to create your own personal lifestream. What many people don't realise is how much more there is to the...

Is this You?

This has gone down a storm in the Apps Room on Friendfeed and thought it was a must to share with the Next Web community as i'm sure many of you (myself included) can relate. Can...

Loic Le Meur addresses the issue of the g-spot at Supernova

One of the last sessions at Supernova 2008 was about "liquid conversations" - the discussions flow away from their original source to services like Friendfeed and Facebook. Dave McClure (500 Hats) moderated the panel of...