founded 2004 2004 founder francisco martin headquarters san francisco united states number of locations madrid spain area served worldwide key people paul kaye general manager of strands recommender rick d. hangartner chief scientist jim shur chief software architect paul christian director of client services wolfgang bremer director of design and user experience products recommendation engine for ecommerce and content websites 1 website recommender.strands.com strands recommender is an saas plug and play recommendation engine that can be installed by ecommerce and content websites . the company is an independent business unit of strands inc founded in early 2004 . 1 strands recommender is based in san francisco united states and in madrid spain . the service can either be implemented through the site s api or with a widget plug in . 2 strands recommender also offers shopping cart plug ins for demandware miva merchant and magento stores . 3 4 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit the recommendation engine on which strands recommender is based resulted from the idea of francisco martin founder of strands inc to improve the recommendations available in itunes by not only taking playcounts into account but people s behavior and their evolving tastes . 5 6 see also edit behavioral targeting collaborative filtering personalization predictive analytics references edit a b strands recommender kincaid jason strands introduces amazon like recommendation engine techcrunch june 10 2008 . 10 questions on product recommendations practical ecommerce may 27 2010 . neil michael . recommended choices for your basic ecommerce store . retrieved 19 november 2015 . mitra sramana towards personalization strands founder francisco martin www.sramanamitra.com june 16 2008 . stern allen interview with gabriel aldamiz echevarria strands vp centernetworks april 29 2008 . external links edit official website official twitter account official facebook page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title strands recommender & oldid 735360283 categories recommender systemshidden categories articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 august 2016 at 05 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view