MyStrands Unveils Well-Sculpted Video Filter

Say you’re a devotee of the music-centric social Web creation MyStrands. Surely some of you in the Profy readership can be categorized as such. Well, if so, you no doubt like what you’re already 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, MyStrands earlier this week unveiled a website with the intention of addressing that very need.

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, or 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.

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.