Recent News

Vinotokyo featured in The Japan Times

Our wine portal site Vinotokyo was featured today in The Japan Times along with a short interview with Netwise president Michael Rollins. Read the full article text here.

The site--billed as "Tokyo's Guide to All Things Wine--offers information of wine events of all kinds, classes, wine bars and restaurants and more. Members can post reviews of wine bars, wines and events, as well as add their own listings of shops and restaurants they know and love. Content is only available in English at the moment, but we are planning to roll out a Japanese version by this Summer.

New venture Australia Property Inc. gets a spiffy new website

Australia Property Incorporated is a new venture by Tokyo's Arena KK created with the objective of offering assistance to overseas investors wanting to enter the Australian market. API assists in every step of the process of buying Australian property to save it's clients both time and money and help them to make a wise investment for the future.

The new website was completely designed and developed by Netwise and incorporates the following features and functionality:

Properties Manager	Properties are managed in the CMS using a customized property manager. Property data is stored in a database to facilitate ease of searching and a wide variety of display and presentation formats.
Event Manager	Information on events such as exhibitions and seminars are managed via the CMS and will be displayed in the site as future (coming) and previous events.
Multilingual	The site offers content in both English and Japanese
Page Content Manager	All page content can be edited in the CMS in both English and Japanese
Search	All website content is searchable via either global site search (page and article content) or inline search form (properties, events).
Mailing List	A mailing list function with newsletter composition and delivery, as well as subscription management functions.

And because it's a Netwise site it also looks and works great. With it's quick and easy search function, richly-detailed property pages, and high level of usability the Australia Property Inc. website is a joy to look at and use.

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Introducing Shopwise, a new multilingual e-commerce solution

We've developed a new multilingual e-commerce engine which makes it possible to launch powerful and attractive online stores and webshops for a fraction of the cost of custom-built e-commerce solutions.

Shopwise integrates easily with local credit card transaction processing services such as Remise and can have you online and selling in mere weeks. And unlike the cooker-cutter, template-driven sites you end up with most ASP-type systems, Shopwise provides for lots of control over branding, layout and design.

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Netwise launches Vinotokyo, Tokyo's first (and only!) wine portal site

One of our recent projects is now online and is picking up steam in terms of traffic and membership. Here's the "official" blurb:

Tokyo has a lot to offer wine lovers.

From world-class restaurants to standing wine bars to the massive retail and online wine trade, Tokyoites have access to an incredible range of not only wines, but wine-related events, education and—of course—wine socializing. However, keeping up with the myriad events and topics of interest to lovers of the vine has been difficult at best. But now that's all changed, and for the first time Tokyoites have a one-stop, comprehensive resource for keeping up with and getting the most out of the world of wine here in Tokyo.

Welcome to Vinotokyo.

Vinotokyo is a community wine portal that exists with the goal of collecting and sharing wine-related information of interest to Tokyoites. It is the first and only online directory of wine bars and wine-centric restaurants in our vast metropolis, with the first comprehensive calendar of wine events such as tastings, dinners and wine parties.

Here are some of the things you can find or do there:

• Consult the comprehensive (and growing!) restaurant and wine bar listings to discover new places in and around Tokyo to wine and dine.
• Read and write reviews of wines, restaurants, wine shops, online stores and just about anything else in our directories.
• Join the Vinotokyo community and interact with others in our access-protected social network.
• Have a Facebook account? Login with your Facebook details and skip the registration process completely!
• Check the event calendar to see what's happening around town in the world of wine.
• Submit new listings for your favorite wine spots not yet in the system.
  
• Join the forums, share tasting notes, recommendations and more.

Ready to get started?

Then either create an account or login with your Facebook credentials using the Connect with Facebook button.