coRank Relaunches With New Features

This evening CoRank relaunched with a variety of new features. When we interviewed Founder Rogelio Bernal Andreo earlier this year, he described coRank as:

coRank is a site that shows you websites and stories that get a high ranking from most of your sources – people whose opinion you value. In other words, it’s like a Digg where you decide who plays the game when it comes to promoting stuff to your front page.

Not only that, you can also determine what topics you want a particular "source" to be influential to your Front Page. So perhaps I love your tech insights but dislike your taste in music or politics. So in coRank, your Front Page is yours only, and likely different than any other.

Rogelio sent over the following list of new features:

• Local copy: Being able to store local ‘cached’ copies of anything that is submitted. As controversial as this may sound, our implmentation and approach got green light from legal. Would love to comment about how this will be played, if interested.
• Collaborative editing: Users can now edit submitted stories, including the usual wiki-like toys: view the "change history", etc. While some might see this as a play on Thoof, the fact is we do not compete directly against Thoof but rather, we offer owners of coRank sites the ability to do what Thoof does and more.
• Individual privileges: Decide who can/cannot submit stories, edit them (if you have the "wiki" option enabled) etc.
• Full Edit: Site admins now can edit ALL of the coRank site templates (each site can have its own copy), allowing for 100% customization. From a development standpoint, this feature + the API (launched a few months ago) offers a platform only matched by the freedom of using Open Source. You can almost do anything you want.
• 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: alerts, replies to comments they’ve made, recently visited coRank sites, etc. Before a user had to travel to each coRank site to get this information.