Site Features

WLT Badge Gallery coming online!

You know those cool “Digg This” badges on a whole bunch of sites? Pretty nice viral marketing huh? What they serve to do is create a way for cross promotion. We’ve had success using the Feedburner “Toast This!” link but it has cause problems that require attention from time to time (you […]

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28Jan2008 | Joel | 1 comment | 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

New Site Feature - Video Wine 2.0 site reviews…

I came across a useful tool that I’m going to implement. I surf MANY wine related websites. I wish I could write about them all and share that with you. Unfortunately, I can’t. But what I can do, now that I’ve found the tool to let me do it, is create short screencast reviews of sites I find and my impressions of them. I’m testing this out so bear with me on the first review.

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27Sep2007 | Joel | 2 comments | Continued

Tasting notes just got WAY EASIER!

Tooling around with new tech tools as I usually do, I just found one of the more useful tools that Typepad has created a posting client for my smart phone (Nokia e61). While most bloggers either don’t have a mobile blogging device or bring their laptops with them, I have a nice little phone with a 2 Megapixel camera. It’s been great for email but no way of blogging.

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27Sep2007 | Joel | 0 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

INSANELY cool improvement to Vivi’s…

OK, I’ve found the functionality that each and every wine blogger in the world should add to their blog. Its called “AnswerTips” and it allows you to click any word, abosolutely ANY word on this blog and have a pop-up window tell you what the definition of that word is. Its a “widget” […]

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13Feb2007 | Joel | 0 comments | Continued