Strands Blog

Hey NYC isn’t the only city enjoying a partyStrands flavor to their New
Year’s Eve parties…there’s more! Browse through partyStrands.com online or
m.partyStrands.com from your cell phone on the 31st to see how people in
other cities and countries celebrate the end of the year.

FYI: for all those lucky guys who find themselves in Madrid, don’t miss out
on the party at Savannah which is one of the premier nightlife destinations
in Madrid. Even those of us on the West Coast will be checking in on this
New Year’s bash from partyStrands.com starting at 3pm PST to coincide with
the clock tolling an end to 2006 in the Spanish capital.

If you happen to be lost wandering the chilly streets of West Village in NYC on New Year’s Eve, perk up and listen. There’s a party at Dohwa to close 2006 and start off 2007 right. While open for regular business, around 10:30pm Dohwa will undergo that magical transformation into a festive grounds to ring in the New Year.

Friends, family and all are invited to 55 Carmine (at Bedford) to join this cool crowd for a night of fun, music, drink specials, dancing and of course partyStrands. So bring your holiday cheer and cell phone to get a taste of a partyStrands party yourself! Best wishes for 2007 to all from partyStrands and Dohwa NYC.

Oh did you think you could only have a blast partying in your favorite bar or club? Well you were wrong. Throw parties at home, fraternity or why not for grandma’s 100th birthday, all with partyStrands. There’s more… when you’re just chilling with your friends or are in the mood for hearing some music, partyStrands becomes a personal radio, playing the tunes both you and your friends will like.

We will soon be releasing partyStrands for anyone to use, not just bars and clubs. So get ready for a wild ride of music, texting and pictures=fun. And if you’re not the party animal, even though we know there’s one inside everyone, you can still enjoy partyStrands as personalized radio for you and your friends.

Drop us an email at info@partyStrands.com to be the lucky first few to get the partyStrands versional for personal use when its released. Note: this message will self-destruct in 20 seconds…

MoMoParis 1 year anniversary party was crowded, 400+ people enjoyed partyStrands’ Parisian debut, it has been a great night. Along with a short presentation and brief demo of partyStrands LIVE combined with other presentations about the advances in mobility by key speakers from Microsoft, Voluntis and the CRNS.

partyStrands had a demo station running where interested parties came and learned about partyStrands’ interactive entertainment service for the first time. This crowd got a first taste of this full and eyecatching interactive entertainment service and they learned to text a message and join the party or to send a text. A question we heard asked several times was, “Is partyStrands in Paris and/or the rest of France? Do you want to be?”

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A full set of pictures of the evening is available at Flickr. More details including pictures are also availabe here at MobileMonday France partyStrands webpages. The French crowd was pretty impressed and fascinated by partyStrands’ very visual mobile-online-digital music-interactivty interface.

Tonight was the first night the mobile portal m.partyStrands.com was used as a new messaging mechanism using the mobile web. So the attendees had two ways of sending messages via handset, one using SMS, the other through a textbox from any mobile web browser.

partyStrands Mobile is really easy to navigate: you can see real time what music is been played in bars, so you can decide which venue to go to, based on the music that is playing. You can view also the bar’s info, location maps and pictures from the latest parties.

From here you seamlessly connect to the MyStrands mobile website and the MyStrands mobile application if you want to find friends, music buddies, and see real-time where your friends are. You can also play in your mobile, 30 secs previews of the songs played in the venues; get recommendations, tag songs and playlists etc etc. find out more about MyStrands and partyStrands mobile offerings here, http://www.mystrands.com/corp/mobile.vm

A very big thanks to MoMoParis for their invitation and a very happy 1st anniversary. Perhaps partyStrands can host the entertainment in future events at MoMoParis and continue its relationship with this great group of people. Definitely a promising stop on the partyStrands movement into Europe.

Aside from visiting the partyStrands.com/mmf page, there will soon be video content available that was recorded at the event itself through Vodkase and Silicon TV.

Vodkase videographers interviewed partyStranders Rudy de Waele and Jane Kwak. In addition, Silicon TV videotaped the presentations which will be available as a web broadcast later on, stay tuned for content updates here!

MobileMonday France is now one year old and they have invited partyStrands to the anniversary party to introduce our interactive music and entertainment service. Utilizing screens, mobile phones and digital music, partyStrands will offer the Paris MoMo crowd a new, colorful and fresh way to enjoy the music experience and have fun interacting with eachother during the closing cocktail of the Mobile Office conference and exhibition.

MobileMonday France will have its 1st anniversary celebration within the venerable Mobile Office Tradeshow at the Hotel Lafayette Concorde in Paris on December 6th, at 6:30pm.

The theme for this evening will be about understanding mobility. To start off the night, Laurent Delaporte, Vice President and Marketing Director of Microsoft France will speak on this theme and how Microsoft facilitates the process of becoming mobile within companies. Next, Pierre Leurent from Voluntis will discuss how mobile technology enables medical professionals to perform off-site patient follow-up. Researcher Henri Issac from the CNRS will then talk about “the manager-on-the-go: an end to the concept of company?”partyStrands will close the presentations by presenting a live a demo as well as providing an interactive experience for the audience while moving the music entertainment into the cocktail portion of the evening.

Be sure to join us for MobileMonday France’s first birthday celebration, the live partyStrands page is already up. It will be a big bash with about 500 people using partyStrands live, a Brazilian band and dancers and a dj, all set within the heart of this grand city.

Some really good crowd yesterday at Mobile Monday New York, aprox. 60 people came to listen to Peter Rojas, Michael Gartenberg and Scott Weiss .

After the presentations, people gathered to chat at the mixer. partyStrands was providing the entertainment, some cool electronic beats which you can see at momonyc venue page. Keep your eyes open for the upcoming Christmas party and other MoMoNYC meetups where partyStrands should host the music again.

partyStrands will be providing the entertainment at next edition of Mobile Monday New York, as we did with the October edition. If you are in NYC tomorrow Monday November 27th, you should come and join us at Samsung Experience Center, at 7 pm. For more details, check Mobile Monday New York website.

Three esteemed guests will discuss their different viewpoints and perspectives on some recent or new entrants to the Smartphone category of mobile devices. Peter Rojas (Engadget.com) will lead a panel discussion that includes Michael Gartenberg (JupiterResearch) and Scott Weiss (Usable Products).