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Creating Value for the Wine Industry

I’m in the process of closing down Wine Life Today the social bookmarking service and making it into my personal blog so that I can dedicate my time to creating real change and real value for the entire wine industry.
WLT is a two year old project that had a decent amount of success and […]

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12May2008 | Joel | 1 comment | Continued

WBW#43 Round-up: Comfort Wines!

So yes, its finally here. I apologize to all those who’ve graciously met the deadline that I went and slipped! Tell you the truth, I am only NOW getting my own chance to take a breath and relax. I started last night, after my daughter’s second week. She’s an angel, healthy […]

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12Mar2008 | Joel | 17 comments | Continued

WBW#43 Announced:….and breeeeeeath….

Wow, when I thought about this theme for WBW (which I signed up for about 18 months ago, btw) I had no idea how badly I was going to need this or how cathartic the topic would be for me.
I believe in balance in life. Truly. I think you must or you won’t […]

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20Feb2008 | Joel | 48 comments | Continued

Joining the Wine2.0 Movement…

I received a big honor today. I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to become the Chief Cat Herder (Chairman) of the Wine2.0 group (officially housed on Facebook). Here is the description from the group’s page:
Wine 2.0 is a wine industry networking group featuring the newest generation of emerging companies, services and communication […]

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6Feb2008 | Joel | 9 comments | Continued

Every Wine Tasting Note Site Should Be Freebasing!

Can you guess what’s wrong with tasting note web sites? Exactly, none (and I mean N-O-N-E) have reached anything close to critical mass of users to make their notes useful. Why is that? Well there are too many wines every year to have multiple reviews per wine.

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18Jan2008 | Joel | 15 comments | Continued

Wine Life Today (WLT) - Viva La Revolution!

On to Wine Life Today. The mission of Wine Life Today (the working version) is as follows:

To provide a medium and community for independent wine publishers to grow and to create an environment that allows true talent to thrive as part of the global conversation around wine.

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8Jan2008 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Wine Blogging Mega-merger Announced!

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jan. 3, 2008 - In a stock transaction valued at $300 million dollars, Wine Life Today has announced its intention to acquire Vivi’s Wine Journal and all its assets. Upon hearing the news, stock in Wine Spectator dropped 34% on speculation that the combined entities are a signal of a more significant Wine 2.0 push in 2008….

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3Jan2008 | Joel | 2 comments | Continued

Happy 3rd Birthday Vivi’s!

Well, my blog is growing up so fast…>sniff sniff<...

First, let me apologize for the bit of a hiatus. There's just alot going on. I have development working on Wine Life Today, working on things with our friends at WineQ, a couple of major intiatives at my day job, construction at our house, and the best news of all…we are expecting another little addition to the family! So as you can imagine, I’ve taken a brief hiatus from my normal blogging

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15Aug2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued

Wine 2.0 needs Product Management…

By trade, I work in product management. What is product management? Its a pretty thankless high-tech job that requires a well rounded individual with many diverse talents and, regardless of technical prowess and experience, is often misunderstood by engineers and written off as “marketing people who spend all day picking colors”.