Friday, September 21st, 2007
Connelly Wakeboards made another great showing at expo with their team riders backing the booth full bore. With the booth split by an aisle it forced expo patrons to walk straight through the booth as they navigated to their destinations.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
A small booth makes a huge impression this year for Byerly Boards. For its second year Scott Byerly and his board division of Hyperlite has really let the wake industry know that they are serious about their place in both the wakeboard and wakeskate market.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
It seems that very prominent skate and snow brands are finally getting the picture when it comes to recognizing the growth of the wake industry. Bern Helmets is yet another helmet company looking for a piece of our pie. Bern is know for their stylish designs and has taken some of their best selling snow and skate helmets and adapted them to water application.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Surf Expo 2007 has finished it’s invasion of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The past weekend was the equivalent to “New Years Day” for the wake industry. Almost all of the new 2008 products were unveiled for the first time. For many of the big companies, it is a chance to really shine and show why they are on top. For the smaller guys, this is their big chance to make some noise and break into the industry with a big bang.
We caught up with most of the top manufacturers and got the skinny on their new line of products. We also were able to corner some of the top pros and most influential people in the industry and force them to do a video interview with us. I think when it is all said and done, we secured about 30 or so video interviews. Keep checking back with DailyWake over the next few days, because we’ll be releasing more and more content on the event.
Friday, August 31st, 2007
The ShareWake BETA [externallink] has finally launched. For those of you not geeky enough to know, BETA means that we are currently in an almost finalized ‘test’ mode. Since the website is community based and driven, it is hard to make all of the final refinements until people start populating the website.
So what is ShareWake? Well, it is basically just like YouTube [externallink]. ShareWake is a place for you (or anyone) to post their videos, and view other people’s videos. The site is designed to be “wake-related”. In other words, the site was designed to be a source for people to put their wake-related videos. But that’s just the beginning.
We will be providing a lot of exclusive content from riding clips to news stories and even some event coverage. The ShareWake site will go hand in hand with our DailyWake site as well. This fusion of the two sites will be even more apparent when we cover both the 2007 Surf Expo and Wake Awards this September. We will cover these events with both our DailyWake and ShareWake websites. With the birth of ShareWake, we should be able to take our news coverage to the next level.
Stay tuned for more details.
Friday, August 31st, 2007
After a little time off, DailyWake is back on track. We’ve been hard at work building our sister site ShareWake.com [externallink]. Now ShareWake is officially launched into beta (test) mode. There will be small refinements here and there, but overall the site is officially up and running.
More information on ShareWake and how it will integrate into DailyWake in the near future.
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Here is the first DailyWake post! We’ve created this website/blog to be the leading news aggregate for the wake industry. We’ve been waiting for a website like this to come along for the past years, and after waiting we have decided to just create it ourselves. Our goal is for this to be your one-stop hub for all wake-related news. Another goal of this website is to bring the wake community together through comments, voting and other interactive features. This news blog contains many of the features you’ll find in other modern blog sites. Here is a rundown of the some of the features you’ll encounter here on DailyWake…