Hosted social voting site provider coRank has relaunched with a list of new capabilities.
The new options can be enabled/disabled by owners of coRank sites as they see fit (except for the personal dashboard). New features include
- Local copy: Being able to store local ‘cached’ copies of anything that is submitted. coRank note that this may be controversial, but claim that legally it has been cleared. It certainly sounds evil.
- Collaborative editing: Users can now edit submitted stories, and also have access to wiki-style features such as view “change history.”
- Individual privileges: Users can now decide who can/cannot submit stories and edit submissions
- Full Template Edit: Site admins can now edit all of the coRank site templates, allowing for 100% customization. coRank claim that from a development standpoint, this feature + the API offers a platform only matched by the freedom of using Open Source.
- My Dashboard: A central location from where a coRank user can get a glance of whatever is that he/she is doing at any coRank site
Users can already eliminate the Digg-style voting feature, which coRank claims opens up the possibility of using the service for a plethora of different uses, such as collective social bookmarking and dynamic repositories such as Wikimarks.
coRank currently has 1600 registered site owners, of which around half are regular users.
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Re. cached copies, why would it be evil? Google, Yahoo, etc have been doing it for years. I guess it comes down to why and how you’re doing it.
CoRank was introduced to there public via this blog about a year ago
It was a noble idea in theory, but a few lousy members put a damper on it for everyone.
Some people do nothing but give negative rankings to almost everything they see - and they are still allowed to be members.
What is flawed is, when a submission has a title and a description - you know beforehand what it is about. So if you are not in to it - DON’T READ IT to begin with!
http://www.corank.com/user/SearchEngines/submitted
All of this “social” stuff is just a fad! Why don’t you people just give it up?
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Duncan, thanks for the review. Our cached feature isn’ evil at all. Quite the contrary.
SearchEngines, you’re referring to our very first site (still active @ http://www.corank.com/corank.html) which was the precursor of our current “create your own coRanking site” service. Truth be told, its beauty is that you can narrow what you see based on your sources. When I’m checking stories and staying with my sources, I always get stuff I’m somehow interested in (yes I eat my own dog food). When I “get out”, then I can see a huge difference and get a lot of things I don’t care about.
BTW, coRank has been live about 7 months, so we’re still 5 months away from the first year milestone
Mr.FSB, coRank can be social, but it can also be *very personal*. You should try it and create your own private “lightweight chairs repository” for your own personal use
For a while I thought coRank was going to be a pligg competitor … until I realized that it’s a hosted solution.
I agree with RBA
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