Userplane Partners with Channel 4, The CW, Fuel TV and More.

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

This is something everyone has been reporting about in the last few days. Userplane has partnered with Network and Cable TV Media Companies.
The long and the short of it is that Userplane will be providing online communication software for broadcast and cable station. The deal will bring Userplane’s Webchat, Minichat, and Webmessenger applications to their [...]

Thanks For The Support

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

I just wanted to write and thank all of our supports and partners for November.
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Disclosures: I am currently CEO of the company which ownes RouteNote. 

Open To Offers Of Consulting or Guest Blogging

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

Today I am heading back home to Australia to see Family and Friends and to actually have a holiday. Currently I am CEO of 2 companies, a new media company and a brewery. Once home I will still be working heavily on the media company, but have some free time because I dont have to [...]

Muzlink and Social Music Marketing

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

I recently got an email from the guys over at Muzlink to take a look at their site and mention it on Crenk.
Muzlink is a construct of the words ‘Music’ and ‘Link’ and it’s mission is to bring together music makers and music lovers on the Internet across the globe. After browsing through the site [...]

Snooth Picks Up $1 Million in Funding

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

Snooth has just announced today that they have received $1 million in angel round funding. Previously they have received $300k in December 2006.
Snooth is a very well presented social shopping site based around the wine industry. The site has a recommendation engine that works in a similar style to last.fm, they break down all of [...]

Gigaom and Web Worker Daily Get A Makeover

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

GigaOM has opened their new design. It is a lot cleaner and basically more white than their old one. The logo itself has been slightly enhanced. The GigaOM design was done by the very professional people over at SilverOrange. Additionally, WebWorkerDaily got a make over by the people at ACS. Does that mean that the [...]

NASDAQ With New Internet Index

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

The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) stock exchange has launched a new internet only index, the NASDAQ Internet Index.
The index will benchmark the performance of companies in the sector, including ecommerce companies, search engines, web hosting, web design firms and ISPs. Thus, at a quick glance you will be able to see [...]

FlyingCart: Online Store Meets Social Promotion

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

FlyingCart, the online store tool allows you to create an online store with ease and then also adds in some social tools which enables some cross-promotional options.  I must admit it is a weird combination of social networking and basically building online stores, but overall it seems to work and actually be very popular.
Once you [...]

Vote Here: for Open Web Awards!

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

Open Web Awards Nominations are now live. In this post I will list the Categories in which you can nominate.
To nominate please leave a comment in the following format: Nominate - Category - (company you wish to nominate). Nominations will be open until midnight Tuesday the 4th December! Once nominations are closed, we’ll tally [...]

Add Calendar Item On Your iPod Touch

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

Last night I updated my iPod Touch pretty much for the first time and noticed a very exciting addition, a new add item to the calendar section. This actually was very heavily discussed when the iPod Touch was released, because it was a feature that could really assist customers to use the iPod Touch not [...]