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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 PDF Released: 10 Minute Guide to the Blogosphere

Dean Sherwin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:19:46 +0000

Here at Crenk we have decided that we’ll share our knowledge about technology and related subjects with you our readers. So we’ve released the first of what will be a collection of PDF manuals for you to enjoy. The first one is our Ten Minute Guide to the Blogosphere.

In it we detail such things like choosing you blogging platform, promoting your blog, using social networking for a blog and keeping your blog going once you’re over than initial hump.

It is available here to read free of charge.

Be sure to Tweet this post and share the PFD with your friends.

-Dean Sherwin

Author of Crenk PDF

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

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.

Crenk Recession Watch

Dean — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:31:20 +0000

Undoubtedly, the recession wasn’t really hitting the internet as hard as what it was other industries. Sure we has a bit of trouble over at Microsoft but that’s because they are also a trading company in the real world. What I mean to say is that the online world was fighting off the worst of it.

In fact, companies such as eBay and Amazon actually didn’t do so bad. People began to sell their stuff when they needed the cash and others bought them because they didn’t have too much cash to splash. It was all making perfect sense until the internet could take no more as real companies started to turn their back on it.

Advertising is plummeting. A new report states that advertising on a worldwide scale is down by five percent. In America, the figure is even bigger at 7% worth an estimated 0.4 Billion dollars. Companies who usually do quite well from advertising such as Monster reported that they lost 31% compared to last year.

Wouldn’t you know it; internet giant Google is the only ad publisher to report a growth, however even this is in single digits.

Now that advertising is failing the next sector to be hit will be entertainment. Big companies that have real world trading have more of a chance of survival but for online magazines and games where they often depend on advertising alone to keep the ship afloat – there may be trouble ahead indeed.

The IDC, who released the report did have some good news however.

“We think the industry will continue to see losses in the third and fourth quarters, but the growth rates–or the loss rates, if you will–will eventually begin to improve,” Karsten Weide, program director for digital media and entertainment at IDC, said in a statement. “However, we also believe the industry may have to wait until mid-2010 until it sees real growth again.”

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!

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.

Microsoft Has Launched Bing

Steven Finch — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:37:48 +0000

Bing is the new search engine by Microsoft which was due to launch on the 3rd of June, but for some reason it has launched today!

After using the service for the last ten minutes or so there seems to be do real major difference between Live.com and Bing.com. Search results are still terrible and it is really only the interface that has improved and only slightly.

I cant see Bing in its current form taking any search share from Google. In fact I think in its current form it is probably going to do the opposite and give Google more share of the market. Im amazed that Microsoft cant get a good search algorhythm and that Google are just so far ahead in actually providing quality results.

Microsoft really seems to just lack originality when it comes to search and the majority of their online products. MSN has never really done too much, Windows media player is completely outdated and hotmail needs a revamp but never seems to change much, now bing is the search engine that couldnt.

It would be great to hear your thoughts on the new Bing search engine. The best example of the results is that I searched ‘Crenk’ and the our own website came up 9th! Terrible!

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!

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.

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 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.

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

Join The Crenk Community

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:19:22 +0000

Join the Crenk community!

Twitter – Crenk Account – follow us

Subscribe to Crenk – via our RSS feed

Here at Crenk we are looking to build the community and discussions around web startups. If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch.

UK AdSmart Ad Network Goes Bust

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0000

UK based advertising network AdSmart, which also had its presence in India through its Delhi-based venture AdRevenue, has gone bust.

A source at AdRevenue informs Crenk that the closure of AdSmart won’t affect the business of AdRevenue, but the company will now operate under a new name, E-Spot Media Pvt Ltd.

There are obviously several sites that will now be out of pocket from this closure, such as Games2win who has already published an article about their loss.

If you have more information on the closure or have been using Adsmart please drop us a comment.

Crenk is 60th on the Twitter Power150

Steven Finch — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:17:02 +0000

Armando Alves has put together a list of the top 150 Twitter users who blog about marketing and advertising and Crenk has made the list! Currently sitting at the 60th slot which is great. However, I’m not really too sure that we talk a lot about advertising and marketing, but guess sometimes we do. Anyways its great to be on the list!

Oh and make sure you follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/crenk

TweetReplies: Send Twitter Replies To Your Email, Browser or RSS

Steven Finch — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:40:37 +0000

Everyday I have about 30 people start following Crenk on Twitter, but today I had a very interesting company show up. Tweetreplies is a new startup which sends twitter replies to your email address. I know there has been a lot of talk about this specific type of Twitter startup in the last week or so, especially with Twply.com. Unlike Twply (which sold for $1200 a few days after launching), Tweetreplies doesn’t require your Twitter username and password to actually operate. There are a lot people out there that have been talking about giving out their Twitter passwords to third party sites, so this is a great way to have a tool and not give up your password.

Only $10 To Now Advertise On The Crenk Sidebar

Steven Finch — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:26:18 +0000

Some of you have already noticed that we have added a new advertising option into the sidebar. The services is provided by BuySellAds, and we are currently offering this direct advertising options (300 x 100px) for only $10 per month. There are currently 6 places on offer so be fast. We are hoping that this ad slot will allow startups get some extra promotion for a very cheap price. The stats for the site havent been updated yet, but as a startup you can expect a minimum of 40k ad impressions per month for only $10, bargain!