PartyStrands, powered by MyStrands, explains on its website that it: ‘allows you to have fun and interact with your friends and other partygoers by using your mobile phone.’ The idea is to make it possible for you to bring your own music to a party and contribute to choosing what is played. Ajit Jaokar has posted some thoughts on the social networking aspects at his Open Gardens blog, including these two concepts:

Firstly, I am always interested in things that blur the boundary between the Web and the Mobile Web and also the physical and the mobile worlds. Aggregating musical tastes is OK .. but more interesting is the fact that if you are a MyStrands, MySpace, or Last.fm user, you can text your alias in any of these communities, and your music behaviour (as expressed in any of these online communities) will influence the music being played at the bar. This means, you can import your xml profile from last.fm for example into your mystrands profile(knowing your alias), so together this will influence your new profile you’re using.

The second interesting element is it’s mobile component. You can follow the ‚Äòparty’ from your mobile browser. This means, you can ‚Äòpeek into’ the party from your mobile phone in real time to see if it’s of interest. For instance, what bars are now active, what music is being played, who is at the bar, and what text messages are being sent etc etc ..

There are more comments from the mobile bloggers on PartyStrands at MobHappy and Mobile Crunch.