Wine Site Watch: Cork’d
If you haven’t uploaded your wine cellar to an online tracking system yet, now is a great time to make the leap, thanks to a new free site: Cork’d. Created by a couple web gurus, this site is built on the latest Web 2.0 technology, and offers some great features. Adding your cellar inventory is as easy as searching the database to find wines that have already been added by other users and adding them to your own collection. The rating system relies on a simple five star system. The site has already attracted over 4000 users, and 3.2 million page views, probably thanks to the celebrity status in the design world of Dan Cederholm from SimpleBits and Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic, the programmers responsible.
(Tip: When you sign up, add me as a drinking buddy, just do a search for my name.)
June 12th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Thanks for the great write-up! We’re glad you dig Cork’d, and we’re excited about continuing to make it better. Member feedback has been really helpful in that regard.
Cheers!
Dan Cederholm
June 13th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Wow!
Dan, I feel privileged to have you commenting on my site! I have been a fan of your work for a long time.
This is a really great project, and I think your combination of features and ease of use is where you guys have other sites beat. I think you’d get a lot of people to switch from their current cellar tracking systems if there was some sort of import feature, but nonetheless, this is great stuff.
Cheers!
June 19th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Love your site; was referred to it by Tricia Colianne. Thanks for the heads-up about Cork’d. Our cellar is a bit of a nightmare and a tracking system like that would be just the thing.