What Wine Thing Hasn’t Yet Been Addressed By Technology?
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I posted this on OWC but it fell on deaf ears. Maybe I didn’t mention Twitter enough. Anyway, I know of some smarty-pants people that read this blog so I thought I’d throw out a 100-point-toss-up…
We have cellar management, community tasting notes, price comparisons, scores, professional reviews, message boards, etc… They’ve all been handled by the avalanche of companies entering the Wine technology space in the past few years. I haven’t seen much innovation recently. Most new companies are just retreading what has already been done. I’m a firm believer in the second-man-in theory, but c’mon fellas, let’s look alive out there. Another way for me to share notes and find places to buy my wine? Just what I was looking for…
Some problems, of course, can’t be handled by technology. Shipping to Utah? No amount of Wine 2.0 is going to get your wine in there. Want to sell wine to someone else, person-to-person? Not quite legal in most states.
Given all that, what problem facing the wine industry or wine consumers hasn’t yet been handled by technology? Do you ever find yourself raising a glass and thinking “Man, I wish I could use my iPhone right now to ___________”
March 4th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Are you saying you don’t need another cellar-management, wine community too– Now with Twitter integration!
March 5th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Well lets not get ahead of ourselves. We all need more Twitter.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:50 am
We’ve heard of a couple specifically related to mobile support including wine label image recognition (for search) and the ability to use phone for scanning barcodes.