Category: Strands
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Strands Labs Seattle, A Retrospective
On October 1, Strands Labs Seattle effectively closed. With the tightening economy, our parent company, Strands, has decided to focus its resources on its three primary business units – Strands Business Solutions, Strands Personal Finance (moneyStrands) and Strands Social Discovery (strands.com). The CoCollage application that we developed in the Seattle lab continues to be supported…
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The Community Collage at Trabant: a Proactive Display in a Cafe
We recently deployed a proactive display application at the Trabant Coffee & Chai Lounge in the University District of Seattle. The Community Collage (or CoCo) shows a dynamic collage of content drawn from a pool of photos and quotes uploaded to the CoCo web site by customers and staff. When customers visit the café and…
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More Better Design[ers] at Strands Labs Seattle
We’re delighted to be joined by two designers at Strands Labs Seattle: Josh Lind and Daniel Norman. Although all of the other members of the team have some knowledge of and experience with design, none of us has been trained as designers, or see that as our primary skill set. With the arrival of Josh…
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Richie Hazlewood joins Strands Labs Seattle for the summer
Richie Hazlewood arrived a few weeks ago from the School of Informatics at Indiana University to work with us on our next generation proactive display applications this summer. Richie has been working with Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly and others at Indiana on a variety of interesting and relevant projects involving ambient information displays, data mining,…
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New Faces at Strands Labs Seattle
Yogi and I have recently been joined by some wonderful new people at Strands Labs Seattle, and our new office space has some new surfaces that make it increasingly habitable. Sameer Ahuja, a graduate student intern from Virginia Tech, arrived May 12, and will be spending the summer with us. Sameer has been working with…
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Move-in Day for Strands Labs, Seattle
Today we moved into our new office at 4143 University Way NE – right on "the Ave", the heart of Seattle’s University District, and literally a stone’s throw from the University of Washington. View Larger Map We occupy the top floor of a three-story building, with 3400 square feet to grow into, and two (!)…
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Rebranding Strands (formerly MyStrands (formerly MusicStrands))
Strands is the new brand – and name – for the company I work for, which was formerly known as MyStrands (which was formerly known as MusicStrands), and has offerings that include partyStrands and openStrands. The change signals both a simplification – unifying the theme that runs through all of our offerings and activities –…
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Yogi Patel joins MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer
I’m delighted to announce that Yogi Patel has joined MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer! Yogi’s arrival doubles the size – and probably quadruples the productive capacity – of our new innovation team. He brings 5 years of development and program management experience, most recently in the area of wearable computing, contributing to the U.S. Army’s…
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Innovating at MyStrands, Seattle
It’s been a little over a month since I left Nokia and started principally instigating at MyStrands, Seattle. Most of my time thus far has been devoted to talking with people and looking at places, as my top two initial instigative goals are to attract a dream team and setup shop in a dream space.…
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Entrepreneurial Karma: Call for Early-Stage Recommender System Startups
This is pretty cool (though I’m admittedly biased): a mid-stage startup (MyStrands, the company I work for) that has recently secured funding now offering an opportunity to fund an earlier stage startup – a sort of entrepreneurial karma, where we keep the investment flowing in ways that will [hopefully] benefit us all. This initiative is…