http://blog.snooth.com Find Better Wines Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Snooth registered user base growing by 500% per year New York, NY (November 16, 2009) — Snooth, the world's largest wine site, today announced that it had added its 250,000th registered user. This milestone comes a few months after Snooth announced its 100,000th registered user earlier this year. Over the last twelve ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/11/16/snooth-announces-250000th-registered-user/ The tech team at Snooth will be performing regular maintenance on our systems Wednesday, November 11 from around 12AM ET. The site will be unavailable during this period. We expect the maintenance will last for no longer than one hour. Thank you for your patience. http://blog.snooth.com/2009/11/09/scheduled-maintenance-2/ This week we have a number of updates focussed on making Snooth more interactive and social. First off is a bit of functionality that users have been asking about for a while. When you're browsing the prices for a wine, you can now sort the merchants by featured status, name, ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/10/27/sorting-voting-and-sharing/ Today marks a sad day for the wine industry: Amazon Wine, yet to launch, may now never see the light of day. I'm sure many retailers, wholesalers and even some wineries are breathing a collective sigh of relief at this news, for Amazon, with its history of pricing, service and ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/10/23/amazon-quite-the-wine-industry/ Spam, spam, spam! When we first started building Snooth, there were only a few stalwarts here using the site, adding content and reviews and browsing the forum. (To be completely fair, the forum didn't even exist back then.) Unfortunately, one of the prices of growing a community these days is ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/10/13/spam-and-delete/ Hand built algorithm highlighted as featured application on popular start page New York, NY (September 29, 2009) — Snooth, the world's largest wine site, today announced that its popular A-Z Wine Pairings application will now be featured on the front page of Yahoo! Users can peruse thousands of recipes from leading publications ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/09/29/snooths-a-z-wine-pairings-featured-on-yahoo-front-page/ This week we've got a few exciting updates on the site. The first, and highest in profile, is a new section on our wine profile pages. As I continue to grow with my knowledge of wine, I find it's very helpful to talk to someone who is further along in ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/09/23/what-to-expect/ There are a few great reasons why the collection of websites that we have come to rely on is called the World Wide Web. One of them is how much it does resemble a web. The places and destinations on that web are interconnected. On a spider's web, any one ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/09/08/related-content/ We added a small new feature the other day. Now, on all the new article pages, there is a module that will list and link to articles and blog posts from around the web that we're reading over at Snooth HQ. We read a lot about wine and the wine ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/08/29/what-were-reading/ It's no secret that we're excited about the articles section. As the newest pages to launch on Snooth, they represent our continued commitment to bring information about the greatest wine regions, wine varieties, wines and wine producers directly to you. Through our emails and now the article pages supporting the ... http://blog.snooth.com/2009/08/25/making-articles-more-social/