Crenk

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.

TradeVibes is now in a public beta. TradeVibes is a wiki type database about everything technology based, companies, CEOs, funding, acquisitions, news and more. They are in direct competition with Crunchbase, but I can see TradeVibes dominating this market for a long time to come.

As i have been an alpha user, i have been wondering around the site for months now and have seen some good changes and some bad. The company profiles, competitors list and web metrics are very handy. However, the news feature is something that really needs to be improved. At present the users sumbit the news onto the site and there are only 3 news stories shown in the sidebar of the profiles, this should definitely be increased to 10 because of the size of the profiles.

Apart from all that TradeVibes has launched a new Stumbleupon type feature called Discovery. Discovery allows users to to find companies in a sector they want and then the tool runs through the companies in which the users either thumb up or down the company. I dont really see this tool adding too much to the site, but it is a nice novalty feature.