Wink
Wink, launched almost two months ago and now accepting beta users, is interesting.
Half delicious-like social bookmarking (with tagging, duh.), half-Wiki, with a bit of Outfoxed
The Wink user scenario begins pretty much like a search engine - a small text box, with a "Search" button next to it. Enter a search term, click Search.
You will get two sets of search results - first, links which were already tagged and rated by Wink users (ordered using Wink's TagRank), and second, standard Google search results. For each link in either of these two sets, you can add the link to your favorites, tag it, rate it or mark it as spam.
In addition, you can view the Wiki entry related to your search term, edit it if needed or create a new one if one doesn't exist already. Plus, you get a list of related search terms.
Other features - the ability to aggregate links into collections, and to subscribe to other users' collections.
Pretty cool. A potentially smooth integration between the search, bookmarking, tagging and content creation processes.
However, since it's going to be uphill battle getting us to switch from typing Google whenever we think "search for pages", they might be better off packing all this wonderful functionality into a browser plugin, Outfoxed-style (or integrate with Flock).
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