The Yahoo SearchMonkey Is Just About To Jump

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

Yahoo rolled out yesterday their new SearchMonkey Developer Tool. Although the product is still in limited preview, it is really great to see Yahoo continue to innovate on the web.
SearchMonkey was discussed earlier yesterday over at the Web 2.0 Expo, the partial release of SearchMonkey is one item that has certainly piqued the interest of [...]

Has The Ad Serving Race Started?

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

Over the last few months the market of ad serving has really heated up. Firstly, it was the acquisition of DoubleClick by Google, which was really supposed to accelerate Google into the display advertising market. While at the same time Open X announced funding, basically so they could turn their ad server from self hosted [...]

Families Now Have A Place To Share Photos: Kindo

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

Back in February I talked about Kindo and how they receive some seed funding. Kindo.com is a family networking site in which users can build their own free family tree, invite whoever is a part of it, and stay in touch with their loved ones.
This time Kindo has just launched photo sharing for families with [...]

TripTouch: Simple Yet Affective Travel Information

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

TripTouch is a Tel Aviv startup that focuses on the travel industry. The site is built for independent travellers who want to make the most of their trips around the world. The site is a social network mixed with search facilities. They have partnered with Kayak to provide accommodation and travel search, which seems to [...]

Standout Jobs: The Recruitment Power Your Business Needs

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

Standout Jobs provides a suite of web-based tools to powers companies’ online recruiting. There main product at present is called RECEPTION and has some great ideas that can increase your productivity when it comes to recruiting. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic [...]

Z-Listers Who Want to be A-List Bloggers Within 6 Months

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

Chris Garret over at the Blog Herald had a very interesting post this morning. The post was about him listing the feeds that he actually reads in his feed readers. The majority on the list were actually what people are classing as A-listers. A-listers are the blogs that are very well known and are actually [...]

TNX: The Best Text Link Marketplace On The Web

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

TNX is a text sales marketplace, but as I have found out, it is also a whole lot more. The site itself and services are very similar to Text-Link-Ads, but with so many more features and opportunities to make your site a lot more profitable.
The TNX system is based upon a points system, where more [...]

The Weekend Review: 17th February 2008

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

This week has been a very busy one around the blogosphere. Here are the headlines from Crenk as well as some interesting news from other sites.

Spottt Launches their new Free Advertising Exchange
Google Partners With Nokia on Mobile Search
RouteNote Launches Weblog

News from Around the Web:

Revver Acquired By LiveUniverse for Some Amount of Loss
Yahoo - News Corp [...]

Explain Hot-linking To Me

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

Yesterday I got pulled up for hot-linking to an image that someone else was hosting. I have a vague idea on what hot-linking is, but im still not really understanding why people get upset about it.
As far as I know hot-linking is when you link to am image on someone elses site that they are [...]

The Weekend Review: 27th January 2008

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

I havent actually posted one of these weekly reviews in the past few weeks, sorry about that. However, I have promised myself that i will get back into the habit. Here is whats been happening on Crenk this week and also around the place on the web.

Getty Images Is Looking For A Buyer, By The [...]