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MyStrands just got its Social Player signed by Symbian yesterday for general release. It is a music player for mobile devices (Symbian Series 60, 3rd edition) with two main characteristics: it is a music discovery tool and a strong community builder. Watch the video demo here below and try it yourself, it’s great!

The player works over a 3G connection (if you can afford it!) and Wireless LAN, it gives you real-time recommendations of songs, you can stream clips of the recommended songs to your device, and learn more about them on MyStrands mobile website. The MyStrands Social Player helps you discover new people by telling you who else in the community is currently listening to the same song and view that person’s profile (unless it has been set as private). Check what I’m listening to here.

It is probably the most advanced music and community mobile app around - I haven’t seen anything like it, a real social community and music discovery tool, you can even build playlists on the go and tag your music, dig?

Check out all details at MyStrands blog.

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Following the response and feedback I got on the “Understanding Mobile 2.0” article I wrote at Read/WriteWeb a couple of weeks ago, I created a wiki space to start categorizing the so-called Mobile 2.0 companies.

You can acces the directory at mobile2companies.com.

I decided to use a wiki tool, called Wepaint, so companies can add their own information and keep it updated. You just need to sign-up to add your Mobile 2.0 company info page, you can add images, slideshows, video’s, and RSS feeds as well, and tag your page(s).

Companies can use the tool to keep the web community updated with latest news, elevator pitches, presentations of new products/services, etc. You can browse the wiki by category, by keywords, subscribe to the wiki feeds on new pages added or updated, comments and news, a lot of other stuff out there yet to discover.

The directory is far from complete, I just gave it an initial injection and added some companies I know to start with, so the best thing to do is add your page if you don’t find your company in there and update your page if you don’t like what I added, it’s a wiki, you know

Kudos to Carlo for helping me with the introduction texts.

Contact me if you would like to contribute to this project, to become a writer/moderator, to help develop the wiki, and for any suggestion and comments. I hope these pages will be usefull for the entire mobile value chain, spread the word!

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Here below an interactive screen demo of partyStrands application taken at La Botellita - Serrano in Madrid last Thursday.

1. see who/what is playing
2. incoming user request (through SMS) influencing music with artist (x)
3. recommendations of similar style music
4. users in the waiting queue
5. another incoming influencing music request
6. user chat screen (cut)

Below a screenshot of the BAR page at the partyStrands web-app. NOTE that everything is completely LIVE (at partystrands.com)

An easy URL is created for every BAR member within the partyStrands network.

The BAR page includes:

• bar logo
• contact details
• location info
• news from the bar/club
• a partygoers FORUM
• pictures from the club and its’ parties
• a list of users currently present in the club (and online)
• recently played songs
• most played artists

To me it looks like an excellent blog-page for bars with an interactive jukebox included

BAR owners and affiliates can now easily subscribe, create their partyStrands page and signup to tryout the partyStrands application in their bar. Currently only available in Spain, partyStrands will become available in other countries soon.

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