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On the storage side, Wink offers many of the same features as del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, but focuses more on the search and discover aspects of social bookmarking. Wink offers a feature that allows you sync your del.icio.us bookmarks with your Wink account, making it easy to migrate from del.icio.us to Wink, or simply use both sites. That said, I couldn't get it to work for me. Clicking the "sync with del.icio.us" link opened an AJAXy window on top of the page, but never displayed anything else.
For adding bookmarks Wink provides the same sort of bookmarklet setup that other sites offer, just drag it to your toolbar and click it whenever you're on a page you want to save. Beware that Wink's bookmarklet opens in a popup window which some browsers may block. Of course if you know Javascript, you could change this behavior.
Wink links can be shared among fellow users by creating what Wink calls "collections." Collections are roughly analogous to what over sites call groups or subscriptions. Collections are tag-based and you can make new collections or join and contribute to existing ones.
In addition to the bookmarks users submit and store, Wink also scrapes tags from del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb, Flickr and other sites to provide search results based on those tags. What you end up with is a Google Search with a Wink tags search on top.
Wink's genius lies in a search results feature that it calls "PeopleRank." PeopleRank allows anyone to rate the quality of the results which Wink then stores and uses next time it serves up results for that search. In theory it could add a nice human element to all the search algorithms out there. Of course it could also lead to results slanted toward the preference of the heaviest Wink users, only time will tell.
Wink is interesting and I'll be keeping a closer eye on it since I think the "PeopleRank" concept has some merit, but on the whole there are better places to go for social bookmarking.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Search Engine crawls other sites offering better listings
* Can sync with del.icio.us
* Search results rating system
**Cons**
* Poor Documentation
* JavaScript errors abound
* No page cache
Previously reviewed:
[del.icio.us][3]
[ma.gnolia][4]
[1]: http://Wink.com/
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html "Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia"
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