Friend me up
Email Ryan O’Connell – I will answer your email. If I don’t, send me more threatening emails.
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My favorites:
Facebook Love That Languedoc – If you use facebook on a regular basis, you can become a fan on facebook, and you’ll receive updates in your news feed when I post a new episode.
Twitter – Obviously, for those who use Twitter.
DailyBooth – This is sort of like if Twitter and YouTube had a baby. People post pictures once a day or so. Photo posting is engaging, but not as demanding as making a whole video, plus you can scan lots of posts simultaneously. And there’s still a space for text and comments if you want to go in depth. The site has amazing potential, but it is sort of dominated by tweens. I want to change that! If you are an adult who surfs the net, consider setting up an account so that this website doesn’t go to the dogs.
Cork’d – An offbeat wine tasting community that shares and discusses reviews and ideas. They’re working on doing a wine review aggregator like metacritic or rotten tomatoes do for the movies. It will be pretty sweet. Also, they have a mashable style blog that is constantly churning out wine news for winos. I write for them frequently so it’s a must-see for everybody who can’t get enough Ryan O’Connell (that’s a common problem, right?).
Other networking sites:
Viadeo – This is a really French networking site.
LinkedIn – This is like facebook, but boring (I think they’re proud of that) and constantly asking me to pay for premium membership.
Wine-Specific sites:
CellarTracker – Eric Levine’s site lets you track the wine bottles in your cellar. I use it more for reviews since my cellar is in constant flux and enormous. But whatever. It’s still fun.
Snooth – It’s another site that lets you rate and follow wines. The neat thing about Snooth is it surfs the net and automatically adds wines.
Adegga – ANOTHER wine review site. I really like this one because it uses AVIN codes and other sweet tech.
Video sites:
YouTube – Obvious. I use YouTube for shorter videos and stuff related to my vineyard.
Vimeo – My primary video sharing site for Love That Languedoc.
Blip.tv – A video syndication site that automatically adds your uploads to lots of other sites. They have great quality preservation and less damaging compression than popular sites like youtube. But the videos take longer to load so I only put them up on certain occasions.
DailyMotion – A very French video sharing site. Why is the name in English? Who knows?
Sites that I don’t really get yet but would love to learn about with you at my side:
Tumblr – I occasionally post photos and links that remind me of the Languedoc. Tumblr is a good micro-blogging service that isn’t so reliant on texts like Twitter. You can get photos, mp3s, and much more so you never know if I’ll be posting a song from the region, a quote from a famous winemaker, or a photo from the 2010 Cheese Maiden Calendar (Yes, that’s a real thing).
Plurk – This is like a bit of twitter and a little dailybooth and some tumblr mixed in, and it looks like it was designed by a deranged five year old. In a good way. I don’t really update much on Plurk YET, but I’m intrigued if any of you want to explore the site with me.
Jaiku - Google’s microblogging platform which includes a more structured use of #channels.
identi.ca – Micro-blogging under creative commons lisence
