While we work on our upcoming features we have been making a couple of other small (but important) changes on Adegga. You might have noted some of them but here’s a list of some new things we’ve added.

Active Members
We’ve added a “Active Members” box to the homepage. It’s basically a list of pictures of people who have logged in recently. Here’s a screenshot:

Easy inviting
You can now invite anyone directly from your personalized homepage. We added a simple text box so you just need to add the email of the person you want to invite and submit.

Top 10 Members
We’ve added a Top 10 Members to make it easier for you to find people who you might find interesting to add your watchlist.

Add new vintage or type
Adding a different year or wine type (red, white, etc) of a wine that is already in Adegga is now much easier. You just need to look for the link “Add new vintage or type” in a wine page and you’ll be able to add a new wine based on the previous one in no time.

Do you like these features? We’re always open to suggestions! Comment below or send us an email to adegga@adegga.com.

We have shown some screenshots but we haven’t said much about what is project all about. Here’s a short explanation of Adegga.

What is Adegga?
Adegga is an online service that helps you discover and choose wine by sharing your opinions with people you trust.

Adegga lets you build a personalized Watchlist so that you can keep track of what people on your list are choosing and tasting. You can add friends, wine bloggers, producer and just about anyone else. You can also add wine producers and wine shops to your personalized Watchlist so that you keep track of when a producer releases a new wine or a wine shop makes a promotion.

Adegga also helps you organize your wines. You can keep track of wines you taste, make a wishlist or organize your home cellar.

Screenshot details: (a) Wine notes from Your Watchlist (b) Wine Browse by type
So what can you do with Adegga?
Here’s a short list of situations where you can use Adegga.

• See which wines you have in your cellar.
• Read what people you trust think about a specific wine you want to try.
• Lookup up prices for a wine you’re thinking of buying.
• See which wines you’ve tasted to check if you have tried a wine before.
• Check your Wishlist before your next visit to the wine shop.
• Check if someone you trust has a specific bottle of wine.
• Review that amazing wine shop you’ve just bought wine from.
• See what promotions your favorite wine shop is running this week.
• Read what wine bloggers are saying about a wine (soon).

There’s more that you can do on Adegga and there’s more that we want you to be able to do.

I’m happy to announce that we’re approaching the launch of Adegga.

The past couple of months we’ve been receiving great feedback from our lovely beta-testers (thank you!). We’ve turned lots of suggestions into features and it’s now time to start talking about them.

We have written about the Wine List Overview feature and we’ll be showing other features here. For a start, here’s a screenshot of the homepage when you’re logged in.

Your home at Adegga
We’ll be sending an email soon to the 500 people who have asked to be notified of our launch. If you haven’t subscribed and would like to do, please enter your email address on the Adegga signup form.

We have been in closed beta mode for almost a month now (since reboot). If you have subscribed to be notified when we launch don’t despair! In a few weeks we’ll start sending invites so that you can start using adegga too!

There are a few people using the site right now (some using the moo invite cards) and providing amazing feedback. We have been fixing bugs and making some developments based on that feedback.

However, there are many other people that have sent us emails asking to “peek inside” adegga. For those of you that are curious about what we are doing, here’s a couple of screenshots with descriptions of some of the features of the project.

Watchlist
When you’re using adegga you can add people, that you trust or would like to follow, to your Watchlist. (More on this on another post).

Cellar
You can catalog the wines you own. Tag, rate and write notes to organize the wines so that you can find them easily later.

Tasted Wines
Track which wines you’ve been trying. This way we never forget what was that amazing bottle you had last year.

Profile
There’s a profile page for each user. These pages are full of interesting information (and we’re adding more) that gives you an overview of each person. Besides the normal stuff, like a picture and some links, there’s a short stat on the number of wines the owns, tasted or wishes, there’s a user tag cloud and much more.

Shared wines
If you’re logged in, then any profile you visit will personalized information. You’ll be able to know which wines you share with that person and which wines you both want. Is this cool or what ?

There’s much more to show like the Wine page, the Producer profile or the Wine Shops area. I’ll posting about these pages in the next few days.