10 Tips to a Successful Blog Sale - NxE

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

Collis over at NxE has just sold his blog on SitePoint, well a month ago now. The blog sold for $8,200. Anyways he has written an article that is very interesting and hopefully will help a lot of bloggers out there who are interested in selling their blogs, not that mine is for sale.
Collis discusses [...]

ValidClick AdExchange to be introduced at upcoming ad:tech show

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), a leader in providing analytics and decision management technology, and Think Partnership Inc. (AMEX:THK), a leader in interactive performance-based advertising, today announced a new and exclusive technology alliance designed change the world of online pay-per-click advertising.
At the upcoming ad:tech show in New York (5th November), Think will launch the ValidClick [...]

Hulu Has Launched Into Private Beta

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts

It has been reported by VentureBeat that Hulu (the YouTube killer, lol) has gone into private testing today. As we already know this is a joint venture between NBC and News Corp, who have been having copyright issues with YouTube and thats why the business started.  Mark Hendrickson also have more on Hulu with some [...]

RSS Advertising and RSS Ad Networks

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

RSS was first introduced in the late 1990s and it is just starting to become mainstream. It has taken a long time to educate people about the advantages of RSS and there are still a lot of people out there that have no idea what an RSS feed is.
What is RSS
RSS is a technology that [...]

YouTube With Upcoming Redesign

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts

YouTube stated on their blog “In a constant effort to improve the user experience and incorporate your feedback we’ll be making a number of large changes to the site over the next few months.”
Upgrades include:
– Categories will now be found under the “Videos” tab.
– Dropdown menus make for a smoother transition when clicking through popular [...]

Believe It Or Not The Music Industry Is On The Rise

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

Chris Anderson over at The Long Tail has compiled stats showing that the music industry as a whole is still growing!
Overall a lot has been happening in the music industry in the last few weeks, Radiohead, Madonna (leaving her label and signing with LiveNation), Prince, NIN, etc. The results of these have fueled great discussion [...]

More About The Google Page Rank

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

Over the past few days I have been reading a lot about Google and their Page Rank, but I really think it is now getting over talked about so I am going to have my final say on the matter.
The Rumoured Situation
Google has been trying to punish sites for selling text links and linking too [...]

Ideas That Should Be Included on Ad Networks

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

The ProBlogger has a very interesting post today about Ad Networks and what he would would like to see added. The post offers features he would like to see in place on Google Adsense, Yahoo, Chitika, Widgetbucks, Amazon and more.
It is quite interesting, because after reading the post I realised that there is a key [...]

Google Changing the PageRank Algorithm?

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

It is huge news today around the blogosphere that Google PageRanks of large sites have been hurt. DailyBlogTips had some of the first info on the topic and most of the key information was from Andy Beard. Sites penalised are as follows:
Here is a list that I gathered with big blogs that supposedly lost PR [...]

Three Ideas To Avoid When Pitching to a VC

Author: Steven Finch of http://www.crenk.com | All Posts, Analysis

This week FoundRead had a chat with Josh Kopelman founder of Half.com, then sold it to eBay and became a VC. Josh currently sites on the board of Facebook’s $10 million fund for Facebook application developers. Kopelman mentioned his three things “he’s sick of seeing from startups” in company pitches. They are:
One: Business plans that [...]