Corank comes close
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Corank made me giddy an hour or so ago. It is Digg but I get to pick the 14 year olds I associate with. Digg filtered through a contacts network.
Then the reality started to seep in and the giddiness turned to sadness. Corank is close but my cigar remains unlit, the fat lady is still in her chamber. The first problem is that when you bookmark something the tag field is limited to a few characters. I enter a lot of tags when I bookmark a URL, it helps me find things later. I can’t work as expected with Corank.
The other problem is the filtering is all or nothing. Only items bookmarked by people I specifically add as sources make it onto my front-page. I’d prefer if Corank had a Digg-like front-page and that the “sources” I subscribe to only influence the front-page. That way I can keep a finger on the pulse of the internet but make sure that people I think are smart get to influence that pulse. They must not define the pulse. As Corank stands I’d have to add 50 million people to my list making sure I exclude the 14 year olds. At the least Corank should flip it around.
