In the last two days we've rolled out two new features.

• Site administrators now can change the photo assigned to a story, or simply add a photo to a story that didn't have one. I think this feature is self-explanatory.
  
  
  
  
  
• Site administrators can also change the way the link in the title stories work. Up until now, the link in the story title would always take the user to the original source, out of coRank. Now, a site admin can change this behavior so that in index pages (that's pages that list more than one story, such as the Upcoming, Front Page, etc) the link in the title can take the user to the "View Story" page instea. Then, in the "View Story" page,the link in the title will always point to the original source.
  
  By default, all links in story titles point to the original source - that's true for existing sites and it's also the default for new sites. To change it, go to the admin pages, option Settings, tab Features and modify the "Story titles in index pages link to..." option.
  
  Why are we offering this feature?  Several site admins contacted us, all of them with a similar issue. Their users are not at all familiar with other social news sites such as Digg (where the links in titles bring you to the original news sources), so when these users arrive to a site at coRank and see a list of stories, they immediately click on their titles, thinking that they're not leaving coRank but going to a page within coRank with more details about that story. Then oops, they realize that wasn't the case.
  
  We felt that these admins had a valid usability case, and since one of the things we want is to make easy for everyone to use and understand social news, we decided that by offering this feature to site admins who have an audience that's new to this type of sites, we would in fact make their experience less confusing. Still, it's an option that is disabled by default, so it is entirely up to you to activate it.
  

And that's it for now. Hopefully we'll be rolling out the first coRank API within the next few days, and as always, we'll announce it right here.