I’d love to participate in the Wine 2.0 event but it doesn’t look like I’ll make it out for the mixer in a couple weeks. I’ll be watching and blogging what is going on in this space here.

Hope I can make it next time.

Hope to hear from you.

Cheers,

Jeff Playter
Founder
RadCru.com

The best mashup in this space will develop an audience that benefits both users and Wine 2.0 entrepreneurs alike.

I completely agree with you. If our sites are to survive, we (the “Wine 2.0� sites) have to find ways to reach a broader audience with tools that bring together sharing information, collecting information, accessing information and ultimately acting on information. In my opinion, social networking is the most promising starting point. When you bring together people with varying opinions, and give them the opportunity to share those opinions, you naturally create a learning tool, a search tool and a recommendation tool. Add an easy way to buy wine, and you have a powerful and useful tool for any consumer. From there, you can build cellaring features and even trading platforms. Add the ability to interface with the site using a mobile phone and you open up a whole new frontier. Many of us are already moving in this direction, and you can expect to see many of these ideas implemented in the near future. Pretty exciting times!

The one thing I’ve learned is that while a blog can be a single person or a couple of enthusiats, other Wine 2.0 ideas will require a “mash-up” of minds!