Don’t have an image hosting account yet, can’t share a photo from a URL? Just want to share a picture you took that’s sitting your computer? Upload it right to Strands!

Keep the feedback coming to feedback at strands.com

You can tweak what type of stuff of your friends that you want to follow. Say I don’t want to see what books that MG reads anymore, it’s super simple to fix that right up from his profile.

You can now also add people to groups easier than ever.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback drop us a note to feedback at strands.com

We say it a lot here at Strands, and it’s our “tagline” of sorts.   But it’s not just a tagline, it is the true crux of what we’re all about.   We are working on and giving you tools to discover things, share things, and find new things based on people’s tastes.

Today I experienced a perfect example of Strands potential and example of real People Powered Discovery.

So I was chillin out on the lovesack last night at the house in SF where a few of us Strands folk live, and I was watching Letterman kind of.  I was half paying attention.   Then he announced the music act for the night and my ears perked up.   It was an artist named Sia that I had never heard of.   The song she was playing “Soon we’ll be Found” was remarkable…as was her voice.    I went right to the iTunes store and bought her album “Some People have Real Problems”.

Personally, when I discover a new artist or song that I really like, I play the crap out of their stuff.   iPod, computer, wherever.

Someone that follows me on Strands picked up on the new music taste of mine and checked out the song.   She dug it too:

As you know, Kathleen aka KathleenLD was the big winner of our Operation mainSTREAM contest and will be getting 2 Macbook Airs.   One for her and one for a nongeek friend or family member.

She’s a PC user though and will be making the big switch, how exciting!!!

I made the switch about 2 years ago and will never look back.   For me, macs made everything I do online way more simple.

Did you switch?  Have any tips for Kathleen?  Drop em in the comments!

From Kathleen’s Blog:

Have any of you made the transition from PC to Mac recently? What were some of the things that surprised you? What took you a while to figure out? (tell me so I don’t have to spend a while trying to figure it out too). Send all tips and hints my way!

Operation mainSTREAM is gaining steam and we kicked it off with a contest.

We asked people to invite their non-geek friends to Strands, and the people who invited the most folks during the month of October won some prizes. One for them and one for their non-geek friends.

Today, we know who the winners are, and we’d like to thank them for joining our Operation mainSTREAM efforts and for showing folks how rad Strands is.

It was so close, and you all kicked serious ass.

Special Super Congrats to:

5th place winner (2 Flip Cams) - hardaway

1st place winner (2 Macbook Airs) - KathleenLD

Email me at drew at strands dot com to claim your prize!

We’ll be doing more contests, don’t you worry. Keep spreading the love of technology to non-geeks and please keep spreading the Strands love! Never worry, we love you back even more.

There is still much work to be done. Stay tuned.

John and Drew team up for this fun screencast showing you the power of the new search feature on Strands.

Enjoy!

http://screencast.com/t/8NekXmmpu

So a few of you took me up on my offer to do Screencasts on various Strands related stuffz.

So here ya go. This Drewcast is on how to add images to Strands easily.

http://screencast.com/t/2hqaDDjk

There ya have it! Wondering how to do other things? Drop me a note at drew at strands dot com.

“I just signed up, How do I find cool stuff and people on Strands? Halp!”

We get that a bunch, so here’s a screencast I made on one of the cool ways I find new peeps.

http://screencast.com/t/smca06sL

Strands Tracker.  Quick install, live hotness right before your eyes.

Sometimes refreshing a web page is boring and time consuming.  Ok, it’s always boring and time consuming.  Now bring Strands and the fun stuff we’re all sharing right to your desktop.

LIVE and in Technocolor!  Ok maybe not Technocolor.  But live.

Check out this video that Jason made.