Company Overview
Strands develops technologies to better understand people's taste and help them discover things they like and didn't know about. Strands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices.
Strands Inc. operates in three areas:
- Personal Finance:
Strands personal finance solution, moneyStrands, provides users with the best personalized recommendations of financial products and services, helping them find new ways to save money and invest. moneyStrands is an online money management solution that allows users to aggregate their online financial information in one place, providing them with an instant snapshot of all their finances. With moneyStrands, users can anonymously compare themselves to others with similar traits, such as demographics. - Social Media:
Strands is building services that enable users to discover new things, based on their online, offline and mobile activities. Some of these services include the discovery site Strands, the interactive party service partyStrands, and MyStrands which helps you discover new music both online and through your cellphone. - Business Solutions:
Strands Business Solutions helps people discover the content in your site. Strands Recommender enables rating, tagging, and community features, and delivers targeted product and content recommendations based on dynamic profiles and streams of behavioral, semantic, and contextual data. Available as hosted SaaS offering, the basic integration takes just hours and is designed to enhance user engagement and fuel the growth of retail, digital content, news media, and social networks. Visit the Strands Business Solutions site.
We believe the future of the web is about personalization. Personalized TV stations, personalized news, personalized advertising, personalized shopping experiences, personalized music, no matter where you are or what you are doing. Social recommendation technologies allow Strands to build a number of engaging products for the end user, and to help different industries deliver personalized content, products, services and ads to their consumers. We have a strong focus on the mobile world.
User to user recommendations and social recommendations will become the most effective online discovery and promotion vehicle for content, products and services in this era of increased availability of digital content and information about people's preferences.
