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Crenk has joined forces with TradeVibes which will see all of the Crenk articles directly syndicated into the TradeVibes database.

TradeVibes is an ever growing company database. The companies posts information about vairous companies, and detailing everything from their address to competitors to its management. In each profiles in the right column it allows the user to stay up-to-date with the news about that specific company. The news is currently being gathered from a variety of sources, such as Techcrunch, RWW and now Crenk.

We have previously written about TradeVibes when they came out of beta. They have since made some big improvements and im looking forward to seeing their site improving in the future.

I cant believe how fast this year has already gone, now the end of April has reached us. This is a wrapup of the happenings around Crenk and the rest of the blogosphere.

Sponsors and Partners:

RouteNote: Music licensing and distribution

Forbes.com: Crenk is a new member of their soon to launch Business and Finance blog network

CypherHackz: The Malaysian technology blog worth reading

Logo Samurai: Some of the best design work at affordable prices!

Bloggin-Ads: Reviewing blogs everywhere

Adify: One of the best advertising networks I have ever worked with.

Rackspace: Reliable and Personal Hosting!

April on Crenk:

Buzznet raises $25 million

AT&T and Microsoft Surface reveal new customer experience

Pitchfork TV Launches

Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft

Dogpile - Why are there no search ads?

Other Crenk News:

At Crenk we have made a lot of the changes this month, such as a new contributor and a new hosting company. Ades will be contributing to Crenk and will become our expert on reviewing startups. Rackspace is our new hosting partner, they have been so professional and helpful. Make sure you look out for a completely new design to Crenk coming out in the next couple of days.

In the last few days you might have noticed we have been having some technical issues here at Crenk. This is due to us trying to migrate all our information to another hosting company. This has now been achieved and everything should resume as normal. If you have any issues or have tried to send an email in the last few days, and havent got through, please just drop me another email.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Rackspace for helping us with the migration!

Thank

Crenk Team

Here at Crenk we have been working hard on trying to develop the site, but as everything it seems to be taking a little longer than expected.

Anyways, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce all our readers to a new contributor that will be joining the team, Abdylas Tynyshow. More affectionately know as Ades.

Abdylas Tynyshow is a full time Blogger (Kyrgyz Republic’s first full-time blogger), Internet Entrepreneur, and Creative Consultant. Back in Nov 2005 he decided to quit his job as the Creative Lead in an IT Company (KL, Malaysia) and decided to concentrate on my personal projects and to pursue my study.

Blog: Adesblog.com : Subscribe to Adesblog : Subscribe via Email

Design and Development Company: AdesDesign.net

Ades will be focusing on reporting on startups from all over the web, which will be included in our “You’ve Been Crenked” section. I hope you all welcome Ades on board and im really looking forward to bringing everyone more great content on Crenk.

You will notice that we have placed a new image to our sidebar. Here at Crenk we are in the market of Tech and Web 2.0 commentary. We are looking to gain the knowledge and experience of CEOs and other executives from around the world of tech and web 2.0 startups.

Wondering If You Fit The Bill:

• CEOs or any Startup executives
• Keen to discuss the issues of the internet and startups

What You Receive In Return:

• Full credit for the article
• Free press and promotion for your startup
• A link to your startup in our sidebar
• We will actively promote your website / blog wherever possible. With our subscribers (and rising fast), you’ll be sure to receive some quality traffic to your site
• Full editorial support when writing your articles. If you have any problems with your articles, we are happy to help you out.

If you are interested, just drop us a line at : info[at]crenk.com with links to your company website, a brief introduction about your company and also tell us why you would be a good fit for the Crenk team. Maybe you could also suggest some topics that you’d like to write about.

As we are coming to the end of March I would like to thank all of our partners and sponsors and recap on whats been happening on Crenk and around the blogosphere.

Sponsors and Partners:

RouteNote: Music licensing and distribution

Forbes.com: Crenk is a new member of their soon to launch Business and Finance blog network

Xfep: eXtra For Every Publisher

CypherHackz: The Malaysian technology blog worth reading

Logo Samurai: Some of the best design work at afforable prices!

Bloggin-Ads: Reviewing blogs everywhere

Our Advertising Partner:

Adphilia: The individual advertising network, that is actually hands on!

Currently, we still have limited space available for April and May, to learn more contact Adphilia.

March on Crenk:

Fastcompany TV Launches

Compete is Acquired by TNS

Webware 100 Challenge

Crenk on Alltop

Bebo is Acquired!!

News from Around the Blogosphere:

Steven interviewed on Xfep

Technorati To Launch Advertising Network

6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds

Alibaba Wants A Buyer for Yahoo Stake

Federated Media Weight Up Options

Crenk Looking for CEOs and Executives to Contribute:

Here at Crenk we are slowly try to move our articles and style of writing into a different direction. We are looking for CEOs and Executives to contribute to Crenk in return for some possible promotion. On Crenk we dont just want to report the news, we want to provide insights. Insights into either product analysis, reviews, conferences, people and more.

If you are interested, please get in touch and we will make your voice heard, not just on our site, but also with our partners such as Reuters, Nielsen, Forbes, Google News, Alltop and more.

If you dont already know Crenk has partnered with our sister site Adphilia to provide advertising for our site and for a very hand selected network of publishers. Adphilia currently has some sponsorship opportunities still available for Aprilso please contact them if you are interested. The network currently includes, Crenk, MakeUseOf, Xfep, BlogHerald, BloggingPro and ForeverGeek.

If you are interested please contact Adphilia via their website.

You might have noticed towards the end of last week Crenk got hacked and someone from South Korea placed malicious software onto our website. The only way I could get rid of it was to reinstall Wordpress. The site is now back to normal and it is functioning fine. However, this being said, the intrusion has caused us a great deal of problems and has also killed our traffic. Google has placed the site on watch and has been suspended from their search results until the problem has been resolved. Now it has all been resolved so Google will be placing the site back up in the next day. Thank you good people at Google. This cost us a lot of traffic!

Has anyone else had the same problem or a similar one?

The nice people over at Google have now added Crenk to their Google News service. This is a great boost for us, because we are slowly getting seen as an authority within the Technology sector. Who knows at this rate we might even be challenging Techcrunch, Mashable and Read/Write Web, one day.

After yesterdays big announcements at MacWorld, Crenk can now be added to your iPhone or iPod Touch Home Page.

If you head to crenk.com in your Safari browser and then bookmark the site, a few options will appear and one is to add Crenk to you Home Page. This will bring up a confirmation page and then it will be amazingly added to your Home Page, with a nice little icon that looks like this: