MyStrands, a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and physical worlds (see our profile in January), has released an interesting new recommendations feature. It uses the MyStrands Public APIs (called OpenStrands) to link their social music recommendations to Wikipedia information. Essentially it’s a mashup of MyStrands music recommendations with artist information from Wikipedia. It’s not a huge feature, but it’s a neat example of the innovation that is happening with music and the Web.
Music discovery and recommendation systems is a growing segment. I still like Pandora, where (as Alex Iskold wrote about in January) music is measured in terms of its “genetic” make up. But there are many other startups doing music recommendations. The Music 2.0 Directory lists the following companies in this segment:
- SoundFlavor
- MusicIP
- Owl Multimedia
- Elbo.ws
- The Hype Machine
- SeeqPod Music
- Upto11
- 9ViBe
- Jamendo
- Goombah
- iLike
- Last.fm
- ChartU
- Mog
- MyStrands
- Qloud
- U.[lik]
- herkesdinlesin
If you’ve used any of the above services, let us know in the comments. I’d like to check out a few of these and see how their recommendations stack up.
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)