I just got an email "warning" me that an article about coRank just made it to Digg's front page. Warning? I think that's pretty cool.

Anyway, a couple of points I'd like to make regarding the notes I've read in the submitted story to Digg .

First, coRank doesn't claim "crowds are stupid". It is true that I tried to create a site that focuses on bringing stories to you according to people you pre-select, but that doesn't mean I think that other ways to bring news to you are stupid. In fact, as I mention in the last slide of the tour, should have Digg not ever existed, I would have never come up with the idea of coRank.

Second, someone mentioned in the comments that coRank is developed on top of Drupal. It isn't. coRank was developed from scratch and - hold on tight - using C language. Don't freak out. It's actually very optimized C code that uses some libraries I've been developing over the years that are also being used in other projects I've made.

I won't go into details right now, but just FYI, it is possible that further down the road I might '"open source" the code. For now however, I have other priorities, such as finishing the "groups" feature - that I will likely rename before launching it - so stay tuned! :-)