Crenk Interviews... Zentact

Following our recent review of Zentact, we spoke to the team behind the service. Read on for insights from Jared Brandt, John Sampson and Eric Marcoullier about their previous work with MyBlogLog, a hint of what's to come with new service Gnip, and what makes them and …

Co.mments Will Be In The Deadpool on 11th January

It has been reported today that Co.mments will be hitting the dead pool on the 11th of January. Well according to a post by Steve Rubel this morning the service will be shutting down and the founder Asaf Arkin announced it in a blog post the previous night.

I have never …

Has Gigaom Been Affect From Moving Away From Federated Media and to IDG?

I have been reading Gigaom a lot lately, which is one of the worlds best technology news companies. Gigaom announced back in November that they will be leaving Federated Media for advertising revenues and move over to IDG. Since this time I have noticed a few key …

Mixturtle: Music Streaming Search Engine That Has Brilliant UI

A couple of days ago we put together a great list of the Worlds top 10 free music streaming service. We received a comment that post that lead us to another music streaming service that I thought was worth a review, MixTurtle. MixTurtle is a great music streaming search …

NewsGator Launches AdBurner. Ad Optimisation Tool for Premium Publishers

NewsGator has announced today that they have launched a new product called AdBurner. AdBurner is a program that provides a turnkey advertising based solution for premium publishers, which helps them to optimise ad revenues around key web 2.0 technologies with no …

Top 10 Google Tools for Entrepreneurs

2009 is here and for a great many of us are looking at some huge opportunities before us. Whether you're suffering because of the economy, or taking your idea and making it a reality, there is always risk involved going out on your own. As an …

Does Branding Play a Part In a Site The Size of Crenk?

There hasn't been a post on here for a few days so I thought I would just have a bit of a rant. Here at Crenk the theme of the site has changed several times in the last year. Currently for the last few weeks I have been thinking about re-branding the site and actually …

Brian Gardner's Revolutiontwo.com is Down and No Longer Free

I was on Brian Gardner's new project RevolutionTwo.com and previous there has been a lot of talk about this project, because he was offering free downloads but with paid support. This afternoon I went onto his new site and noticed that you can no longer download the …

Techcrunch Theme Changed Again, This Time It Is Actually User Friendly

I have also noticed today that Techcrunch has changed their theme again. It hasn't really been too long since they last changed their theme, probably about a quarter off the top of my head. Last time the Techcrunch theme was changed they seems to have nothing in their …

The World's Top 10 Free Music Streaming Services

Im spending a lot of time in the office recently and I'm one of those people who cant work without music playing really loud in the background. I'm sure its not just me who thinks better when music is playing loud, so I thought I would put together a quick list of the …

Have You Got a Startup That Is Looking For a Little Extra Promotion?

Here at Crenk we are always looking to review some of the newest and coolest startups on the web. This time of year news tends to be a little slow so we are looking to promote startups more than ever. If you have a startup that needs a big of extra push and an …

Tech Year In Review. The Crenk Roundup for 2008 and Whats To Come in 2009

2008 has been a very interesting yer here at Crenk. Crenk was launched mainly as a hobby for me to review new startups. Since that time we have had several writers head over to Crenk and help us out with content, including Ades, Kenneth, Mike, Luis, and our newest …

Pricing Books Just Got Social

There are a lot of companies out there doing amazing things with emerging social media opportunities. It seems that this opportunities are not industry specific. Currently new ideas and applications for these ideas span across all industries, and all it takes is some …

Cuil, The Search Engine That Couldn't...Search

I don't know where to begin with this one. It was not that long ago, earlier this year, when Cuil was touted as the Google killer. This search engine was to massacre all known search engines known to man, a powerhouse of innovation and usability. There was a lot …

Amazon Have Announced Their Best Selling Products of 2008

Amazon have just announced its best selling products of 2008.

The following is a list of the bestselling products on Amazon.com in 2008 by total units sold:

• Books: "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)


• DVD: "Wall-E" (widescreen …

Book Worms Unite with BookSprouts

Never before have we as a global community ever felt so connected as we have in the past ten years. We have grown from gatherings, town hall meetings, forums and message boards, internet chat rooms, to social networks. I host a podcast over at Tech in Twenty, and we've …

Twingly: The Blog Search Engine That Is Actually Moving In The Right Direction

When you have an urge (we all get it), or a task that requires you to go sifting through blogs, what is the first place that comes to mind? Technorati of course. It is an established player in a fairly open market which has seen their superiority fairly untroubled. …

BOXEE to Open Alpha on Mac and Ubuntu on January 8

After remaining in closed alpha for six months and over 150,000 signups, BOXEE is gradually moving towards the beta stage by opening up alpha on Mac and Ubuntu on January 8th. According to the Boxee blog:

we get asked frequently about why we keep it closed, especially …

What's the Deal With Authority Based Search?

It's a known fact that if you're on a social network, there are those that are simply on to connect with a few people, co-workers, family, old friends; there are also those that connect professionally because they are considered industry …

Nintendo To Offer Videos On Wii

Dentsu Inc, Japan's largest ad agency, said it would team up with game maker Nintendo Co Ltd to launch a video distribution service on Nintendo's wildly popular Wii console.

The two companies plan to offer programmes created for the service, a Dentsu spokesman said, in …