May 25th, 2006
Wine goes web 2.0
There have been no sites devoted to wine, but now there suddenly are two.
Cork’d appeared a week ago, and WineLog just launched.
Even though I’m no big drinker or even taster of wines, I do love good wine. And sites such as these are very welcome, especially with people like me, who can’t remember more than a few really exceptional wines.
I haven’t tried the sites out, but TechCrunch has reviewed WineLog, which I think looks very web 1.0 and not as Ruby on Rails as Cork’d. Having browsed the two, it seems they need a lot more reviews before they both get rolling, but for people who want to keep track of their inventory or search for reviews, it will rock.
I hope they’re including a mobile search-function; I can’t think of the number of times I’ve telephoned friends or searched the net through my PDA while in a Systembolaget, i.e. the only “franchise” (that’s owned by the state) that’s allowed to sell alcohol in Sweden.
