Digg + Bluedot + del.icio.us + MySpace = coRank
Steve Safran March 9th, 2007
The newest entry into social bookmarking is coRank, which Michael Arrington describes as “a cross between Digg and Bluedot.” (Bluedot being best described as a cross between del.icio.us and MySpace, I think.) So what you have now is the ability to:
- Bookmark pages you like and access them anywhere
- Share those bookmarks with friends and others
- Vote on those pages (that’s the Digg part)
- Have a personal page (a la MySpace)
And some other social features. I think. I start to get confused when features add up like this. It’s getting crowded out there in the social bookmarking/networking space. But the costs of entering it aren’t that high, so any new twist on the theme probably isn’t that expensive to try. I can see newsrooms taking advantage of a tool like coRank to share stories of interest among themselves and their community. coRank has a blog you can check out, where they discuss what they’ve launched and what they’re still working on.
3 Comments Add your own
1. Mike Koss | March 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I the “Head Cheerleader” at Blue Dot. You’re right, it is an evolving space - not sure it’s that informative to say anymore that this service is just like these other two added together (though that’s a convenient shorthand for people trying to understand what these new sites do).
Rumors that MySpace is adding a bookmarking feature now change the equation too.
Blue Dot started as “social bookmarking” - much like del.icio.us, but focused on showing users a summary of what their friends are “dotting”. In January, we too, expanded our offering by adding Blue Dot Buzz - showing the most popular bookmarks across our network.
I think our ultimate vision is much like that described for coRank - we’re trying to make it easier for user to find the most interesting content on the web, without being ovewrhelmed by noise.
2. The Tony | March 9th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I just clicked over there. TOTAL sausage-fest.
Boring so far, let’s jazz it up a little and add some 14 year-old girls with Laguna Beach backgrounds and Lil’ Kim music on their profiles.
3. RBA | March 12th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Mike,
I agree coRank’s goal is also to eliminate as much noise as possible. I like BlueDot and I think you guys have done a great job.
coRank is still too young and at this point is nothing more than a pet project (a pet project I love BTW) and honestly I’d rather it remains small and useful than crowded and filled up with nonsense stuff.
Steve, thanks for your comments. You should see some developments coming up soon targeted to what precisel you mention in your post
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