Tailrank is a news aggregator which has been around for a little now. The service marks the quality of a news story by the number of times the story has been blogged or linked. The stories are aggregated from various sources much like Digg. But unlike Digg which sometimes suffer from worthless Diggs, the Tailrank system looks more robust as someone will take the pain of blogging or linking something only when its worthwhile. And with the rise of bloggers at exponential rate in every field its obvious that a good story will receive a lot of links.
Features that can make a difference
1. Recently added video category populated with videos from various video sharing services (mostly youtubes) which are selected on the basis of number of links or embeds. (TailRank Video)
2. Providing deep tracking for a story with the "track this thread", to get depth and breadth of a story.
3. Easy access to news by date. For 21st dec news -- "http://tailrank.com/2006-12-21".
4. Import service from other aggregators (bloglines, newsgator). Manual uploading of OPML files. (Tailrank import)
5. Allowing for embedding Tailrank on your blog with fully customizable CSS.
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