Comments on: MyStrands Launches Music Video Discovery Service, MyStrands.tv

By: MyStrands Completes B Round, $55 Million Raised To Date

MyStrands Completes B Round, $55 Million Raised To Date — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:06:11 +0000

[...] songs you love on your computer, mobile, and even playing them in bars you frequent. They recently launched a music video product that puts a more pleasant face on YouTube’s music video archives. [...]

By: mystrands.tv at pixelblog

mystrands.tv at pixelblog — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:39:57 +0000

[...] It’s now launched a music video service which pulls in the majority of it’s content from YouTube, but significantly seems to be doing so in a more robust fashion than any of its competitiors such as iLike, and MOG. One of the other interesting competitior in the form of Vidora.tv. Now they’ve got a really bad design, but a very good Flex widget and a bunch of interesting things going on – well worth a look. Techcrunch has an article on it. [...]

By: injuredlist

injuredlist — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:46:19 +0000

There’s a completely legal, AJAX-y and non-Youtube powered version of this at http://videovalve.tv

By: LonelyBloggers

LonelyBloggers — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:51:25 +0000

What happened? Did all of the Vidora employees come over and spam this post ? Brutal…..

I agree with James, all these sites do is index illegal copyrighted material.

I did a few searches and all I came up with were illegal uploads etc …

There’s no business model involved here beyond leveraging people looking for copyrighted material… Yawn…

Infact this whole vertical is completely boring…. There will be a hundred sites that will do this type of thing a year from now…

You better hope that you get bought out, because you’ll be out of business sooner than later. Nothing personal, but really both of these sites (and associated businesses) are going nowhere fast.

By: James Gardiner

James Gardiner — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:13:23 +0000

Guys, anyone who thinks that a decent company is going to purchase a site that exists on pirated content known nothing of business. Gootube has enough problems with legal issues and they do not offer tools like these.

vidora is nothing special. Good use of Flex technology, but nothing to hard to implement from a developer perspective.

I do not debate the real issue of it being very easy to download pirate music/video on the net. However, I do not support companies abusing this to make profit, and i am sure the lawyers will get around to doing something about it.
And if your fine with pirating, go for it, while you can. Just don’t expect sites like this to stay around.

James

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:09:19 +0000

Recommendation systems are highly specialized search engines. In any case, I talked to them a while back and they have a cool product. Their technology is also kind of cool.

By: Will@eckerd

Will@eckerd — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:44:38 +0000

looks like I started an avalanche of Mystrands and Vidora haters. If you dont like free music, stay away. Vidora in my opinion is the better site. i use it together with pandora and last.fm for hours at a time. I agree it will not be around too much longer, but not because of copyrights , but because it will be bought out. I agree with the other guy above. i want to see the vidora.tv system in googles hands with all their content. it would be a perfect match.

By: G

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:40:25 +0000

Expected much better from MyStrands than just indexing YouTube Videos. With everything they claim to have for recommendation technology, and all the money they have raised – they want develop business models indexing YouTube videos – someone at MyStrands is trying to figure out their Nth iteration of their business model to justify the money raise!

By: Bye bye Videohybrid

Bye bye Videohybrid — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:15:05 +0000

Relax james, times are changing…copyright is dead. That vidora site is the best video site so far. They wont have anything to worry about, Youtube, Hulu, Joost or one of the others will definately buy them out just for their system and programmers. Their site is on a totally different level when compared to the others in the market. Their downloaded player rocks too. Even better than Veoh. they just got it right. Stop trying to be Mr. Lawyer guy and enjoy the free music. Btw, their Vlog system is the easiest i have seen.

Go Vidora
btw any browser codes out there? Cant wait to see that.

By: Fred Destin

Fred Destin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:15:00 +0000

in fact check this out: http://labs.mys...dex.html#papers

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:13:25 +0000

I agree with dave, my friend introduced me to vidora and I havent stopped using it since: the features within vidora offer a greater level of versatily than what I can see in mystrandtv. I’m just loving it.

By: Fred Destin

Fred Destin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:08:15 +0000

dont understand why you dont dig deeper into this one. ilike is quite basic profiling stuff from what i can see, whereas mystrands appears to be based on some pretty solid math innovation — does not mean the service is better, but certainly a much more intriguing IP base and probably broader application fields.

By: James Gardiner

James Gardiner — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:35:35 +0000

Vidora.tv and the site mentioned above.
Why have they not been closed down by some type of legal bodies.
These sites, if any, appear to me, to break copyright law.
MyStrands.tv, may be leverage of content on youtube, but its still offering a service to solicit illegal content..
Vidora.tv is even worse. Its easy to see they have been uploading Music Videos into there database themselves.

I am quite amazed at this blatant abuse.

I personally do not see a future for these sites if hey are based in a country with any respect in copyright.

James

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:58:06 +0000

Yea, I have to say im a Vidoradict (vidora-adict) lol. Great site / system and I think it blows all the others out of the water.

By: Will@eckerd

Will@eckerd — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:51:07 +0000

Mystrands is cool, but we have been using Vidora.tv to do the same all summer. they have much more features including video search, picture in picture videos, their own browser etc etc… And they are right here out of Eckerd College.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:48:34 +0000

Go Oregon companies! Site looks good, I’m sure there’s a whole lot more to come from this crew.

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:26:40 +0000

Saw that one coming – wonder what it will be recommending next?

By: David Litsky

David Litsky — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:46:19 +0000

Cool product but $25MM in funding? Where is all this money going?