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Good news for the mobile enthusiasts out there: MyStrands is now available on Nokia’s WidSets platform, bringing a new way to discover music and see what your friends are listening to, right on your cellphone.

In the two weeks MyStrands WidSet has been available, more than 65,000 users have downloaded it!

WidSets is Nokia’s mobile widget platform, and is completely manufacturer and browser independent. Probably the biggest mobile widgeting platform in the world, it reaches more than 300 handset models and has over 6,000,000 users. As Nikolaj Nyholm wrote a while back, “WidSets is for the mobile what Netvibes is for the browser”.

How does this fit with the rest of our music services? MyStrands music experience is present in the complete triangle of Internet experiences:

1. Online service at http://mystrands.com and http://mystrands.TV.
2. Mobile with the MyStrands Social Player for Symbian, Java and Windows Mobile devices; MyStrands mobile website; and now also the MyStrands Widset
3. PC/Mac desktop applications with the Strands Tracker that works with iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Songbird, Pandora Radio, Last.fm and Amarok.

All are integrated through our public APIs (OpenStrands), and your one MyStrands account is good for all these services. OpenStrands demonstrates the power and universal applicability of the Strands Recommender to the entire ecosystem.

Enjoy, and don’t forget to send us your feedback!