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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:
In the last three months we have had a lot of changes here at Crenk. Our previous theme was personalised and since we now have Ade on the team it was a good time to move from a personal weblog style to a more commercial theme.
I have never thought about Crenk being a pure commercial entity. It has long been my personal weblog and I would never want it to be seen as just a stupid money making blog that is trying to earning as much in revenue as it can per month. Since on the new theme I have placed Adsense, this will not be a permanent fixture, just a stop gap until I can arrange some nice in-house placements.
The colour scheme on Crenk has changed and some bought some much needed branding to the site.
Please bear with us as we make a few changes over the coming days. If you have any suggestions or comments about the new theme, please let us know.
Thanks and hope you like the new theme.
Crenk Team
It has been a little over 3 months since Crenk posted its first article. Since that time we have gone from strength to strength. Crenk has also just accepted our first contributor, Ade (Aductions) and we are always looking to grow the team.
We have been linked from several top sites such as Read/Write Web, Marketing Pilgrim and Reuters. Crenk has also been rising on Technorati, Alexa and more. If you would like to help us grow our site make sure you check out the following links:
From the Crenk team we would just like to thank all of our readers in helping us make our site what it is today and we look forward to providing more interesting technology and web 2.0 news for many more months to come.
From everyone here at Crenk, I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
I just wanted to write a little note thanking all of our Partners and Sponsors for October.
RouteNote – AÂ New Music Licensing and Distribution company that will be launching in the coming months. Make sure you sign up to their private beta.
Trythis – The amazing suggestion tool.
Doof – All about playing games, meeting people, competition and expressing yourself.
JakelDaily – A site for bloggers and those that love to catch the latest news from around the blogosphere.Â
eMonetized – Making Money Online with Tim Schroeder.
EatFruitPlease – A design blog that is growing more and more everyday.
Etienne Teo – A Money Making Blog from Etienne Teo, a young entrepreneur from Singapore.
If you are interested in Advertising on Crenk or in an exchange please get in contact.
It has been reported around the web yesterday evening that Meebo has partnered with Joost to provide Chat solutions.
Joost has chosen Meebo as the provider of chat solution on its IPTV service, but I really dont see the point and how this is going to enhance the user experience on Joost. When users log onto IPTV services they do so for the one reason of watch TV shows Free, not to chat to their friends. If they did use the service to chat to their friends how are they going to see what is on the TV, because although it is transparent to some degree, it is still going to be annoying. Thus if you wanted to run both at the same time why not just minimise the Joost service and run Meebo or another chat client in another window. Overlays just dont work!
Like Our New Look?
Welcome to the new Crenk! I hope you like our new look. The new theme was designed and coded by Adriaan Pienaar of Adii.co.za. Adriaan recently released a modified version of his own actual blog design that he uses on his site and this is what we decided to use.
The new theme has been tested on the latest version of FireFox, IE7 and IE6. If you’re using any other browser, we can’t guarantee it’ll look right. Changes to the blog include a top info section about me and Crenk, more sponsors sections, recent comments, most comments and other stuff that I’m sure you’ll discover as you explore it more.
I hope you like the new look and once again thank you to Adriaan.
If you would like to be one of our sponsors on the new look design, please head over to our contact page. Price is currently $20 per month.
For a couple of weeks now I have been running my own little competition to bid on a banner on my site. The current price is $15 for the month of November. Im guessing this wont go up too much at present because I am currently selling a 125 banner for $20 per month. If you are interested in advertising on Crenk please let me know. More importantly please help me try to keep Crenk Advertising Network Free and purchase some ad space. Thanks.
