Comments on: Who Will Be The Facebook of Wine? http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/ A wine podcast and blog Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:18:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: OpenWine: The Facebook of Wine? | Winecast http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56245 OpenWine: The Facebook of Wine? | Winecast Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:52:45 +0000 http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-56245 [...] while back I predicted that Facebook would most likely be the “Facebook of Wine” but today I’m not so sure after spending a few minutes [...] [...] while back I predicted that Facebook would most likely be the “Facebook of Wine” but today I’m not so sure after spending a few minutes [...]

]]> By: Stop The Madness! | Winecast http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55278 Stop The Madness! | Winecast Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:20:13 +0000 http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55278 [...] seems most of the new entrants are trying to be the Facebook of wine, which is not the right model as I think Facebook will fill this role. What we do need is one place to go with a single sign-on (OpenID, please), slick user interface [...] [...] seems most of the new entrants are trying to be the Facebook of wine, which is not the right model as I think Facebook will fill this role. What we do need is one place to go with a single sign-on (OpenID, please), slick user interface [...]

]]> By: Tim http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55185 Tim Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:07:38 +0000 http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55185 Thanks for your thoughts, Jill and Steve. I think Facebook or some other general interest social network will be the winner as wine is too niche for widespread adoption. That's why I think the smart folks are using Facebook apps to extend their reach into the places their customers are now and not forcing them to join yet another social network. I like what you are doing in this regard, Steve. Thanks for your thoughts, Jill and Steve.

I think Facebook or some other general interest social network will be the winner as wine is too niche for widespread adoption.

That’s why I think the smart folks are using Facebook apps to extend their reach into the places their customers are now and not forcing them to join yet another social network. I like what you are doing in this regard, Steve.

]]> By: Steve Bachmann http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55184 Steve Bachmann Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:42:41 +0000 http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55184 How do you define critical mass? Web traffic, employees, revenues, registered users? Most of the pure 2.0 players have little of any of these. A social network is ultimately only valuable if it can be monetized, whether through advertising revenue, ecommerce transactions or something else. The comment from Jill about Facebook itself being the Facebook of wine has a ring of truth to it. Ultimately, individuals will not want to maintain multiple "friend networks" so leveraging the "winner" (i.e. Facebook or someone else) rather than creating one from scratch makes more sense to me. That's why Vinfolio recently launched its first Facebook widget and will do more. Here's a link to a recent blog post of mine in The Wine Collector about our Facebook widget: http://www.vinfolio.com/thewinecollector/2007/12/new-my-vincellar-facebook-widg.jsp How do you define critical mass? Web traffic, employees, revenues, registered users? Most of the pure 2.0 players have little of any of these. A social network is ultimately only valuable if it can be monetized, whether through advertising revenue, ecommerce transactions or something else.

The comment from Jill about Facebook itself being the Facebook of wine has a ring of truth to it. Ultimately, individuals will not want to maintain multiple “friend networks” so leveraging the “winner” (i.e. Facebook or someone else) rather than creating one from scratch makes more sense to me. That’s why Vinfolio recently launched its first Facebook widget and will do more. Here’s a link to a recent blog post of mine in The Wine Collector about our Facebook widget: http://www.vinfolio.com/thewinecollector/2007/12/new-my-vincellar-facebook-widg.jsp

]]> By: Jill http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55180 Jill Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:01:00 +0000 http://winecast.net/2007/12/11/who-will-be-the-facebook-of-wine/#comment-55180 I agree, I think Facebook perhaps stands the best chance of becoming the Facebook of wine...funny, no mention of Cellartracker in the article (unless I overlooked it, which is possible since I skimmed it). My guess is that Cellartracker has more regular users than all the other Wine 2.0 sites combined. I agree, I think Facebook perhaps stands the best chance of becoming the Facebook of wine…funny, no mention of Cellartracker in the article (unless I overlooked it, which is possible since I skimmed it). My guess is that Cellartracker has more regular users than all the other Wine 2.0 sites combined.

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