I was one of those dinosaurs that continued to subscribe to the now-eliminated print issue, so this is my first crack at the electronic version. I also subscribe electronically to both Burghound & Parker, and one thing I’ve never been able to get from the Parker version is any kind of decent print functionality. While Tanzer still doesn’t have Burghound’s PDF that makes things virtually idiot-proof, they do have a nice “print this article” functionality that I like because it allows you to just print the stuff you want to read.
At any rate, lots of good reading for me this issue, as we have the annual Barolo/Barbaresco write-up paired with the 2008 vintage assessment for Austria (respectively, the top red & white categories in my cellar).
Not that I’m keeping score but… MyWines was initially announced on 9/1/2006.
Fast forward 3 years, in late June Bob promised this on 9/1. Then again in early October Bob promised this mid-November which we officially get to this weekend. At some point they really will shiop this thing. At least the error margin for missing the date seems to be getting smaller. But I know they will ship it soon, as I am getting close to done with my year-long redesign. These things have a way of landing together.
I would LOOOOVE that, but I am keeping my expectations grounded. It is fun to read Bob boasting about MyWines in 2006: We have a fabulous new wine management program, which will be called “My Wines,” that will be launched at the end of the year. This new state-of-the-art program is currently being tested, and its potential and application are amazing.
My question is how are you ‘testing’ something in 2006 that still hasn’t been released 3+ years later? And when they do ship it, will they support it and improve it? Rapidly?
The reasons they state for the delay is also comical… things like looking at a new microsoft software upgrade… or the internet evolving with social media…
Ah… if they wait a year or two, i’m sure more Microsoft capabilities are coming, along with other internet evolutions…
Mark - the short answer is that they’re clueless. The longer answer is that Parker seems to have a possessive attitude to the data and site in general. They seem to want to take a walled garden stance - the board blocks search engines for example. And, I imagine that since they seem to be working on a CT competitor, they don’t see the advantage in licensing their data broadly.
I forgot to use the /sarcasm tag. But they seem to want their data on their site and only their site vs letting their subscribers view eRP data on other wine management sites. I think they’ll use the integration of that data with My Wines to try to get people to use My Wines… but that sort of strategy doesn’t usually work.
NOBODY is making any money on free internet, except for maybe a few very low overhead outfits, like Drudge, and Perez Hilton [and maybe Eric Levine?!?].
In fact, traditionally the only mainstream organization that was making money on the internet was the WSJ, and lately Murdoch has been signalling that he will be moving his entire empire over to that model.
There’s a reason that e.g. you can’t find any highlights of the Beijing Olympics on Youtube - the NBC lawyers see to it that they are taken down almost as soon as they are posted.
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