now, to be cool , must be web2.0, in any industry, and the wine is no exception. But he must do exactly one wine producer to be web2.0?!
E 'sufficient blogging or you're forced to open the virtual version of his own vineyard in Second Life ?
In fact, when you define something as "Web 2.0" is done more often refer to the fact that the site / community / blog / etc is created also and especially with user contributions, so that all become effects of co-authors, by providing content of all types: text, photos, videos, etc..
striking example of web2.0 services are Wikipedia, YouTube , Flickr, etc..
More generally, web2.0 is anything that allows a person to express whatever it wishes, sharing it with the world, without the need to be a journalist nor to know how to create a site. In practice, web2.0, for example, blogs and blogging, just for the fact that the contents are to be generated from the bottom up, from the myriad of Time for ordinary people who are "Man of the Year 2006 ", ie you, me, all of us.
In this sense then, the actual producer web2.0 is not the company, already existing and proven in the real world, he also discovered that at some blogs or Second Life or social network.
No. The real producer web2.0 ... YOU!
Whoever you are, clerk, manager or hairdresser for some time now have the option to make your own wine in the hills of California without ever having set foot there.
As just a PC and an Internet connection, is as easy as blogging.
The good news, reported by Fortune few days ago, in a nutshell is this: Crushpad , California winery, has launched an online initiative that eliminating the physical barrier, allows anyone, eno -lovers, wine experts and wine and trendy, to produce fine wines Americans directing operations via web from anywhere in the world.
Designers start with a fact: the dreams of American leaders, making wine is in second place, according to the findings of a 'survey of Business Week. Crushpad, as well as buy the grapes, then provides all other services for the production of wine to anyone who wants to experiment with this activity.
How it works?
The first step that will take you to be a winemaker web2.0 involves entering the site and answer a question thirty essential to support the winemaking process from a distance. Decisions to be taken are thirty, all crucial, including: quality of wine, choice of the vineyard, how we collect, fermentation temperature, aging time and type of filling.
To follow every aspect and be sure of what you're doing, you can monitor in real time, each of these steps through a system of webcam. E 'key - recommends Crushpad - that any cyber-wine-maker will regularly monitor all stages of the process, dall'approntamento vineyards, the grape harvest to bottling. Crushpad
But not only this, it is also a social network , complete with enoWiki , forums, personal blogs and groups Discussion . The site also offers fact a "private discussion room" where customers can interact, exchanging information and making friends.
Each customer will have to 'produce' at least 220 liters of wine (in practice, a small barrel).
The charges and prices vary depending on the level of participation chosen at registration and vineyards where it was decided to produce.
In conclusion, with a figure somewhere between 3900 and 5900 U.S. dollars, you take off the whim to make your own wine in California, and at the end of the process (and of the aging period) will be delivered to your home bottles.
In short, it is possible that a few years these days Time titles "The winemaker of the year is YOU."
Main:
11 December 2006
In Vino Profitas (pdf)
Several YouTube videos on Crushpad
