Help Wink Name This Feature

Help Wink Name This Feature
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Wink has a cool feature that allows users to gather together links about a given subject.

This feature allows the authors or others to quickly get answers or research that subject. Others can add their own links as well, making it better for everyone.

These are currently called “Collections” and a few are featured on the Wink homepage. We are adding a lot of capabilities to collections in a coming release. Soon people will also be able to add comments and images as well as links.

What is the best name for these things?

Select the best name below and click “vote!”. If you have a better name idea, let us know!

Thanks for your input!

Cheers
Michael

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20 August 2006 | Wink | Comments

6 Responses to “Help Wink Name This Feature”

  1. 1 bronco 23 August 2006 @ 9:57 pm

    i think it should be called, ‘groups of links’, or ‘grinks’ . perhaps, ‘links that are like themselves’, or ‘linklelves’. maybe something to do with internet hyperlinking where those links all have something in common… ’schulinkernet!’

    just some ideas.

    good luck and GOD bless you.

    bronco

  2. 2 Michael Holzer 24 August 2006 @ 10:50 am

    I think the survey need an “other [ ]” option.
    If you had one, I would put Themes in it. Wink Themes.

    Of course I kinda want more of an explanation:
    Maybe some relationship questioning could help us: What is a wink? Is what you are proposing a parent or child of a wink? I kinda see it being a term like geese for multiple goose. Not winks, if a wink is a link, But Weenks? Maybe more than one wink is a wonk? OK, I am just being silly, but I think there is something to being original and creative with this. This is kinda working off my assumption that a wink is suggested url.

    What I am leaning towards is creating a family of nomenclature the user can understand.

    I also think it would be interesting to make the term original for branding purposes. Easy to say so I could tell my friends about it at a concert. Make a tshirt or two about it. etc etc.

  3. 3 jer 24 August 2006 @ 11:46 am

    Bundles?

    Stacks?

    These groups of things are all supposed to inform about a specific subject or idea, right? Maybe Bubbles? Like the kind above someones head when they’re thinking about something..

    Clouds?

    Pools? This one seems to encourage you to “dump things into” it. Let’s go see what’s in the pool…

    “Add a drop to the Bucket?”

  4. 4 Eddie 25 August 2006 @ 7:49 pm

    So they are all associated with each other and to the main item but still different..like siblings to the parent or in this case ‘wiblings’.

    You mentioned geese so gaggle or sticking with the “w” theme waggle.

    Winklings
    twinklings

    Jer, your idea of the wink pool sounds interesting…seems like a lot of interesting marketing things you could do with that.

  5. 5 Ebrahim 26 August 2006 @ 7:22 am

    Boxxet (box+set) was perfect, but its already taken and they do exactly the same thing.

    ‘Grinks’ or just ‘Wink themes’ sounds good, as already suggested.

    Looking forward to Wink v2.

    — Ebrahim

  6. 6 Karen 27 August 2006 @ 11:05 am

    I have to agree with Michael Holzer.

    I also like Wink’s Links.

    But I feel that it should be something creative that is easily explained with current terms and yet still relates back to the “theme” of the page. Googling has come to mean searching the internet, Do you yahoo? is a question that people understand, although I’m not quite sure people can explain it. Which group do you want Wink to fall into?

    It doesn’t have to be the exact same (ie Gmail and Google Earth). But keeping it related would help users and the media to connect it to the website.