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Join Crenk on Facebook and Get The Latest News and Free Invites

Steven Finch — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:24:30 +0000

If you enjoy reading Crenk and have a Facebook account, be a fan of our Facebook page and join in on the fun! You’ll be rewarded with exclusives, invites and the latest reviews of web apps.

We will also use our fan page to occasionally inform you about premium software giveaways.

In addition to that, you’ll have the chance to participate in Crenk polls and discussions; and ask our Crenk writers technically-related questions or just tell everyone how much you love reading our site!

Crenk Twitter Lists: Crenk Team, Top Technology News Sources, Tech Talk and Bittorrent News

Steven Finch — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:58:35 +0000

Well all know about the new lists feature that Twitter has released. Here at Crenk we thought we would add a few Twitter lists of our own and categories them so everyone can keep up to date with what is happening in the following areas:

Crenk Team – http://twitter.com/crenk/team

Top Technology News Sources – http://twitter.com/crenk/toptechnews

Tech Talk (Top Analysis from Leading Minds in Technology) – http://twitter.com/crenk/techtalk

Bittorrent News – http://twitter.com/crenk/bittorrent

Advertising on Crenk Has Never Been So Cheap!

Steven Finch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:49:39 +0000

Here at Crenk we have recently partnered with Adphilia as our new advertising platform. All fixed price advertising will now go through the Adphilia platform as you can already see in our sidebar.

Current Opportunities:

300 x 100 ad = $100.00 per month – Purchase Here.

We will be offering a monthly round up article in which will include details about all our sponsors and what they offer.

Over the next few months we really hope to bring in more cheap fixed sponsorship opportunities on Crenk, with the aim of really helping startups grab cheap exposure that can really help drive returns.

I also wasnt too sure whether to offer 300×100 ads or 125×125. What do most readers and advertisers prefer?

Crenk Twitter Accounts Everyone Should Be Following!

Steven Finch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:43:40 +0000

Crenk – http://twitter.com/crenk
Steven Finch – http://twitter.com/steven_finch
Dean Sherwin – http://twitter.com/deansherwin
Augusto Alvarez – http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

Crenk Looking for New Writers in Several Areas

Steven Finch — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:49:21 +0000

Here at Crenk we are looking to expand our writing staff. Currently we have openings for writers on the following topics:

Advertising
Blogging
Mobile Apps
Products
Search Engines
Software

If you are interested in any specific topic then it would be great to hear from you. If you can send over a brief intro with some previous work, then we can discuss the finer details.

Thanks, Crenk Team.

Why Aren’t You Already Following Crenk on Twitter?

Steven Finch — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:23:21 +0000

Follow Crenk on Twitter! I havent written an article about our Twitter accounts in a little while, so thought I would just let everyone know about all our accounts.

Crenk – http://twitter.com/crenk

Steven Finch – http://twitter.com/steven_finch

Dean Sherwin – http://twitter.com/deansherwin

Augusto Alvarez – http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

John Steppens – http://twitter.com/johnofthewest

Insomnia Launches Gaming News and Review Site WireNinja.com and Free Online Casual Gaming InsomniaGaming.com

Steven Finch — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:11:54 +0000

As you may know Crenk is part of the Insomnia Media Group, which consists of many other internet properties. Today, Insomnia is launching a new Gaming site, WireNinja. WireNinja is dedicated to keep everyone up to date with what is happening in the world of gaming. WireNinja includes everything from Xbox 360 to DS to Cheats and codes. The site is written daily and it will be increasing a lot of time.

In conjunction with WireNinja Insomnia has launched a new casual gaming arcade Insomnia Gaming. Insomnia Gaming already has over 1000 free online casual games, so make sure you head over and check it out.

Top 10 Web 2.0 Blogs on Blogs.com

Steven Finch — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:45:23 +0000

I was lucky enough to be asked by the Sixapart team to post a guest list on Blogs.com. My list was titled Top 10 Web 2.0 Blogs and here is the list below.

CenterNetworks

Web 2.0 news from the Big Apple (NY). Allen Stern provides some great reading.

Crenk

Fast growing blog reporting on everything from web apps to Bittorrent news. Great selection of reviews on the best web 2.0 apps by Insomnia Media.

Download Squad

Profiling some of the best web apps around. Look for more than 30 articles every day.

Go2Web2.0

Orli provides the news of what is happen in Israel and surrounding countries, plus profiles only the best web 2.0 products.

Mashable

Dedicated team who profile some of the best web 2.0 services available. Look for over 20 articles everyday.

Profy

Providing a Russian point of view on the world of technology by Svetlana Gladkova.

Read/Write Web

Insights into what drives web 2.0 services. Great indepth analysis from some of the best tech journalists on the web.

Smashing Apps

The best lists around! SmashingApps details a new list of the best services relating to a specific topic every week.

The Social Times

Insight into the world of social apps. Founded by Nick O’Neill.

TheNextWeb.com

One of Europe’s leading web 2.0 sources. TheNextWeb also has the best technology conference in Europe.

Invesp: Comprehensive Blog Directory

Steven Finch — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:48:56 +0000

There are so many different types of blog directories out in the market at the moment. Today we received an email from Invesp who have created their own blog directory and it seems to be more comprehensive than most others. Additionally it is great to see Crenk already in the directory and doing well. In the term “startups” we are already in the top 10 blogs, with many other top sites including Techcrunch, Venturebeat, TheNextWeb and Killerstartups.

I know that most of these directories aren’t really comprehensive and they don’t tend to include all blogs in the right areas, but who really cares, it is just a bit of fun.

New Crenk Facebook Group and Fan Box

Steven Finch — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:30:20 +0000

Here at Crenk we have been making a huge amount of changes with the site in the last week or so. Regular readers will notice that the design has had an upgrade which we hope now is a lot more reader friendly. Additionally, today I wanted to announce that we have a new Facebook group and we have added the new Facebook Fan Box to our sidebar within each individual post. The Facebook fan box and group aims to help our readers follow our articles via Facebook and build more of a community around the site. Here at Crenk we are really trying to provide our readers with what they want, but this is hard without a solid community around the site and a place for everyone to vent their opinions, this is what our Facebook group aims to do.

If you like Crenk and would really like to contribute to our community then please become a fan!

Click here to join!

iPhone 3G S – Overheating?

Dean — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:13:37 +0000

One user on a French forum posted that the overheating is “Unbearable” and the “phone much be shut down” as soon as it switches to EDGE instead of 3G or GPS is in use.

Indeed, it seems like things are heating up over the new iPhone but not in a good way. Reports are springing up all over the internet of people having a scorching hot iPhones in their pockets, seeing red traces around the lithium battery and even fearing the device may catch on fire.

One user said “I have a black 32 GB 3GS and recently I experienced overheating when I was using GPS. Every time I use GPS it somehow overheats, however mild it may be. But in a region where 3G is out of reach and phone switches to Edge, the overheating is unbearable. You must shut down the phone”

For what is now the most well-known smart phone in the world, Apple needs to resolve these complaints about their lead product quickly. When things like this occurred with other manufacturers such as Dell and Toshiba due to overheating caused by Lithium batteries the companies were highly embarrassed, lost sales and had to write checks amounting to tens of millions to fund a gigantic recall of the faulty products in question.

So far, from what I can see it is the GPS, Internet and Battery that are having the blame placed on them. Others are also saying that the root cause of it all (if indeed this is as widespread of a problem as it’s made out to be) is that the new OS on the 3G S has poor power management.

Whatever the cause, Apple better hop to it to smooth this one over quick to either fix the problem or assure customers that no such problem exists. If this catches onto the mainstream consumer radar iPhone 3G S sales may plummet.

Twitter Accounts for Crenk and our Writers

Steven Finch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:42:00 +0000

It has been a while since we promoted our own Twitter account on site so I thought I would just drop a message to everyone to make sure they follow us. Any Retweets are also very much appreciated.

Crenk Twitter Account = http://twitter.com/crenk

Steven Finch = http://twitter.com/steven_finch

Luis Sandoval = http://twitter.com/pandaran

Augusto Alvarez = http://twitter.com/augustoalvarez

Thanks to Our Sponsors and Partners for May

Steven Finch — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:22:28 +0000

I would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for the May. May has been a very exciting month here at Crenk. Crenk released a new theme for the site in which we are constant working on providing the features that our readers want to see and use. Our traffic has really stepped up and we have seen some great results for this and our RSS readers. Plus Twitter is at an all time high and on the rise.

Please follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/crenk

Please subscriber to our RSS feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/crenk/feed

At Crenk have also hired a fulltime writers to the site who will bring in a lot more quality content faster. Welcome Luis and Augusto.

Luis is a writer who has been working on Crenk for a long time and now he has taken the plug into fulltime journalism. Luis is based in the USA and will be bringing our readers some of best and newest startups from that part of the world.

Augusto is a computer geek and fan of the latest technologies, specially those within IT. Augusto has worked as an IT consultant and operations manager for a couple of years. Microsoft Student Partner, MCTS and MCITP.

If you are interested in writing for Crenk then please get in touch and we can see if you fit the bill.

Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners

Adphilia – Adphilia is our CPM advertising partner. Adphilia has really help us develop a constant income stream which allows us to grow our team and site. The advertisers Adphilia provides are top quality and the results have been great.

RouteNote -RouteNote is a digital music distributor that is send artists from all over the world to the leading digital music stores (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon).

Popurls – Popurls is the original single page news aggregator. Popurls is the leading destination to find out what is happening in the world of technology and other topics by simply just visiting one page.

If you would like to become a sponsor or a partner with Crenk then please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any ideas you might have.

Crenk Reaches 1,000 Post!!!

Steven Finch — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:58:23 +0000

This is Crenk’s 1000th post. Crenk has been running for a bit over a year and a half and in this time we have produce hopefully some great articles that our readers really enjoyed! In this post I thought I would just share some basic site stats with our readers.

Posts: 1,000

Unique Visitors Since Launch: 364,876

Pageviews Since Launch: 749,590

Comments: 3,856

Twitter Followers: 1,532

In the first year it was very much just a hope for me in which I posted one article a day if I was lucky. Recently we have been trying to post more and more articles that will really help our readers find new, interesting and useful startups and applications. In the next few months we hope to bring in some more writers full time on the site and push it to the next level even quicker. If you are interested in writing for Crenk then please dont hesitate to contact us.

As well as writing more interesting content we are also interested in moving forward with our site design and potentially add in a lot of new features and offerings to our service that our readers will like. If you have any suggestions of what we should add to the site please let us know!

I would also like to thank all the services that have help us promote our site, Popurls, Alltop, Google News, BlogBurst and Blogrovr.

I just wanted to say thanks for everyone who is visiting, reading and commenting on Crenk. We couldnt have got to this current level without your help, so thanks. We looking forward to producing some cool content for you in the future.

Thanks!

Crenk In The Top 150 Popular Blogs About The World Wide Web

Steven Finch — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:55:22 +0000

Over at The Next Web they have put together a great list of the top 150 popular blogs about the world wide web, and Crenk made the list! It is really an honour to have made this great list and I’m looking forward to producing even more great content so we can keep in this illustrious company.

Make sure you head over and check out the list at The Next Web and let me know what blogs should have been added to the list.

Looking for More Writers To Join Our Growing Site

Steven Finch — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:30:10 +0000

Are you an expert in your field? Do you have a lot to say but lack the ability to reach a mass audience? Do you have a breaking news story you’d like to write yourself? Do you want to write for Crenk? Then mail us your article or interest to, tips at crenk.com.

What Do You Get In Return?

Each writer on the Crenk Team has their own personal site linked to from our home page
Each writer will receive a link back to their personal site via the authors name at the top of every post they write
All writers will have their own introduction on our about page, which showcases their profile, image, achievements and personal blog
Your articles will be seen by some of the leading professional in the tech industry
Articles have potential to be syndicated on Google News, Alltop and Popurls via our partnerships
Revenue share: Crenk will pay our writers a fixed CPM price for all views on their articles

What Are We Looking For

Are you totally obsessed with startup companies and finding the next trend on the web?
Do you have a good working knowledge of the Wordpress blogging platform?
Do you write with personality and love to get your point of view across as much as possible?

If you answered “yes” to all of these questions then you are the person we’re looking for!

Crenk Needs More Twitter Followers! Please Follow Us

Steven Finch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:32:56 +0000

Here at Crenk we have been on Twitter since the start, but we have never really tried to push our Twitter account too much, we just let the growth happen organically. However, Im really wanting to try to build a community around our twitter account. At the moment we are getting very close to 1,500 twitter followers. I know this is nothing compared to Ashton Kutcher, but then again im not a movie star (well at the moment, lol).

Anyways, help us find more Twitter followers! Our account is www.twitter.com/crenk.

Crenk Launches New Web Apps Directory. Help Us Build It!

Steven Finch — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:57:18 +0000

Here at Crenk we have just added a new directory to our site. The directory is for web applications. Every few days we will be adding more and more sites to the directory. Each site in the directory has a brief description and a linkback to their site. We have broken down the directory into 19 different categories including music, photo, mobile, search, bittorrent and more.

To start the directory we have added only 13 of the most popular websites around, but stay tuned for more coming very soon.

If you have a website you would like to see added to the directory, just head over to the directory and at the bottom of every page you will see a suggest a link option, just click on that and suggest something for us to add. Help us build the best web apps directory on the web.

Cant Follow Any More People On Twitter, Please Help Us By Following Crenk!

Steven Finch — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:25:03 +0000

Here at Crenk we use Twitter on a daily basis and really try to interact with our readers. Yesterday we followed our 2,000 account on Twitter and then I noticed after hitting this milestone that we aren’t able to follow any more users. I wasn’t really too sure why this was happening so I posted a quick message on Twitter asking people why I cant follow any more people, and @richmulholland and @Neil_duckett replied to let me know that Twitter has a 10% rule once you reach 2,000.

Therefore if I want to follow more people on Twitter I need my followers to reach at least 1820 followers. Thus, I need your help! Please follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/crenk) and help us spread the word and get other people to follow us also.

Crenk Launches Community News Which Helps Blogs Promote Their Own Content

Steven Finch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:54:29 +0000

Today we have added a new feature on Crenk that we hope will help many other blogs promote their great content. This new feautre is called Community News. The Community News section can be found in our sidebar and it is basically a submission process that lets any user advise us of a great blog post.

The articles that will be shown in our Community News section will be related to startups and will either be great start lists or reviews. We hope that by adding links into our Community News section other sites will get some great promotion and traffic, while at the same time receive a linkback from our site.

Submissions to the Community News section is completely free and only takes a minute to submit. So please feel free to help us promote some of the best content on the web.

Crenk Community Submissions Form

Steven Finch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:21:02 +0000

This forms is for the Crenk Community to submit some of there favourite News articles from around the web. Each news article will be approved by our admin and then placed at the top of the achives page and into our sidebar.

Here at Crenk we are keen to help other blogs with great content get noticed and we believe that this Community News section will be great promotion for smaller sites.

9Rules Submissions Now Open

Crenk Community News

Steven Finch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:20:02 +0000

Welcome to the Crenk Community News Archives. Here you will find a complete list of all the articles submitted to the Crenk Community News section.

BuySellAds Stats Dont Seem To Show Correct Amounts

Steven Finch — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:45:37 +0000

I have been looking at our advertising page over at BuySellAds and have been wondering why stats over their estimates only 18,000 impressions when my Google Analytics says 51,000? I know with BuySellAds it take sometime to build up the stats, but our ads have been on the site for over a month and they still havent increased up to its real level.

Crenk Reaches 1000 Followers on Twitter!

Steven Finch — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:09:52 +0000

Here at Crenk we have reached another milestone. Admittedly it isn’t the biggest milestone in the world but oh well. Crenk now has over 1000 followers on Twitter!!

Woohoo. If you aren’t already following us on Twitter than why the hell not! Follow us at www.twitter.com/crenk.

Crenk Showcased In Top Wordpress Galleries

Steven Finch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:27:17 +0000

In the last couple of days Crenk has been fortunate enough to have been profiled on some of the top Wordpress galleries.

WeLoveWp – Crenk page

CSSbased – Crenk page