Say you’re a devotee of the music-centric social Web
creation
MyStrands.
Surely some of you in the WebTVWire readership can be categorized as
such.
Are you a devoted fan of the music centric social web creation
site MyStrands? I’m sure some of the WebTVWire readership can
categorize themselves as such.
Well, if so, you no doubt already like what you’re
getting
from the
service, but as is generally the case, you might…kind
of…maybe…want a
bit more. More, at least, in visual terms. (Music vids, concert
footage, etc.)
Well, fortunately for you, earlier this week
MyStrands unveiled a website with the intention of addressing that very
need.
MyStrands TV – A Music YouTube
MyStrands.TV,
a
music-video-centric creation with one foot in the MyStrands society and
the other inside the wide world of YouTube, brings together two powers
in almost natural harmony.
While a few things at the new MyStrands
addition could use a bit of ever so slight tweaking, the team behind
the project have essentially done the project up quite well thus far.
It’s built as a place for anyone (MyStrands members
are welcome, but
a log in isn’t necessary) to browse webpages, or
“channels”, of video
collections of particular artists and other recommended clips.
You can even
assemble personal collections of music videos to share with friends
(this is where a MyStrands membership comes in handy) very
easily.
I
personally find little use for the create-your-own-channel feature of
the website, but the convenience of a music-only atmosphere and the
availability of a significant (and growing) supply of recommended links
is certainly a welcome bonus.
An Oasis Of Music Videos
If nothing else, MyStrands.TV
is a genuinely good filter of music videos found on YouTube, and is
most definitely a more visually pleasing alternative to the much more
generic one offered by the Google-owned host.
Whether searching for
artists’ videos by keyword or via links to recommended
channels by the
MyStrands gang and/or user base, the experience is genuinely better
than what one gets through YouTube alone.
MyStrands.TV is an oasis of
music videos. Nothing more, nothing less. If that sounds like something
you could latch onto, by all means, pay a visit. It’s likely
that
you’ll find it one of the best of its kind on the Web today.
Paul Glazowski is a contributing author discussing the social networking world, his work can be found on Profy.com
