Comments on: Wink Launches

By: smarcus

smarcus — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:35:23 +0000

im looking for a bluetooth product which is just a screen and keyboard like in a laptop but connectinbf to harddrive by bluetooth. It would be a really light laptop no wires no attached harddrive usin my hard drive. anyone sell this??? i mean i already got a pc desktop . i want a laptop too in my house strictly for mobility with no wires attached. Do i need to buy a laptop with drive ?? is this a product idea?

By: Ted Smith

Ted Smith — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:08:56 +0000

Wireless World: Premature predictions?
Predictions that the maker of BlackBerry wireless e-mail technology was about to collapse due to protracted and bitter patent litigation were premature, experts are now telling United Press International’s Wireless World.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week rejected patent claims by NTP, the developer that has been suing Research in Motion, the owner of BlackBerry. The surprise move comes after lengthy litigation, which RIM was losing, and which led many to say that RIM might be shuttered, and even caused the U.S. government to develop contingency plans in the event that the wireless service went dark. By Gene Koprowski

By: frank

frank — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:18:25 +0000

I’m thinking their services is much like Oodle.com, grabbing lots of content from Craigslist - seem like they are grabbing majority of the content from del.icio.us. Its convenient for sure, but not sure if its following Oodle’s path to any litigation. A co-worker of mine showed me this website BROWSR.com, its pretty useful.

By: Micro Persuasion

Micro Persuasion — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:23:03 +0000

Search the â€œTagosphereâ€ with Wink

Wink is a brand new search engine that opened to the public today. It lets you search across link sharing sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Slashdot and others. Wink splits results into two halves. The top set of results come from

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:52:43 +0000

I think adding social engineering to search is a promising ideal. Reminds me of American Idol where the audience takes the initiave to pick a star. I’m personally impressed with the American Idol stars picked by the audience in comparision to the crappy pop stars picked by A&R and music label executives.

I see two challenges. One is so-called ‘click fraud’ where partisan entities will promote their irrelevant web sites over one that is highly relevant through creative social engineering. The other challenge is the lack of barrier to larger competitors. The bigger sites can implement these same features and scale much more rapidly than Wink because they have millions of existing users.

Which brings me to the point of writing this - what is the aim of these new search engines? Are they just looking to be bought out or cash & burn (get funding, run through it and close shop)? Or are they serious in competing against some very heavyweights that have the mainstream media in their lower front pocket?

I just want to be honest - I’m simply not impressed with any of these newer search engines if they do not demonstrate that they can offer a better solution than the status quo.

PS: I take issue with companies calling themselves a search engine but have an “Ads by Goooooogle” section taking up the right portion of the screen. Talk about a business model :0

By: testboy

testboy — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:20:29 +0000

… and Songbird sorely disappoints by not releasing the promised preview release on time and effectively pushing it weeks into the future and even next year.

By: Software Only

Software Only — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:38:54 +0000

Search Tags People = Wink

Michael Tanne, the CEO of Wink, briefed me a couple of days ago on the forthcoming public beta that became available tonight around midnight Pacific Time. Wink is a search engine that allows users to bookmark and tag results, thereby altering the orde…