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Barcelona, Spain and Corvallis, Ore., United States, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 -- (Business Wire India) -- MusicStrands, the music discovery company, announced today that Dr. Andreas Weigend, formerly Chief Scientist at Amazon.com, has joined MusicStrands as Chief Strategist (www.MusicStrands.com).

Weigend will guide MusicStrands' product strategy in personalized music search, recommendation, and discovery, leveraging the collective intelligence of music aficionados around the world. Weigend brings to the company a global perspective on user behavior and an exceptional track record of creating algorithms for consumer products.

"MusicStrands will transform the way people discover and enjoy music, and the way people share their musical taste," says Weigend. "Using MusicStrands is like blogging and tagging, making it trivially easy for individuals to express their tastes and ideas. I am excited to be working with a great team of artificial intelligence and data mining experts including Tom Dietterich, Francisco Martin, Jon Herlocker, and Mark Torrens."

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