coRank - Social News done Differently
7. April 2007 – 15:36 bycoRank is a social news site which was founded by Rogelio B. Andreo who had worked for Netscape and eBay in the past. It was launched in early March.
Another social news site? Another Digg? Some valid reactions and while its user interface is reminiscent of Digg I think coRank is quite different. You are not shown all stories by default, rather those of your sources. Sources are people whose links and opinions are valuable to you. Just read some news and add users who submitted those news as your sources. That’s the main difference to Digg, I think. Although your sources are not necessarily your friends - there are no friends in coRank - it makes coRank more friendly and social.
Of course, you can vote on stories. The account settings give users full control to see who has voted for their stories, whose in their network of sources and even who are their fans. You have probably guessed it, fans are users who added you as their sources.
The profile page:
The coRank front page:
I think coRank is different enough to be a more than decent alternative to Digg. All features are easily comprehensible, supported by the clean user interface. Also it seems to be more difficult to game coRank because a story can’t hit a global front page. Really good site.
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