Stimator: Real Website Valuation Estimator

Stimator is a real-time website value estimator that aims to deliver the most accurate economical value that a website could worth by collecting important data from different sources as well as market places.

There are six major factors involved in the calculation:

• Top …

The Pirate Bay Launches Interactive Torrent Map

Torrent giant The Pirate Bay has launched an interactive map showing where people are seeding and leeching torrents around the world, with data for every country giving a percentage of users, and how many connections are going through that country.

It's a Google Maps …

Yahoo Products Finally Adopt Twitter

Head over to http://twitter.com/yahoo to follow us for 140-character updates on a variety of things Yahoo!. Just five hours in the saddle and we have nearly 200 followers. Welcome!

That said, there are many other Yahoo! Twitter accounts that went live before us, …

Twitter Client Marketshare, Which Do You Use?

TwitStat's current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.

1 Web - 29.57%

2 TweetDeck …

Accomedion: Keyboard Harmonica and Accordion iPhone App

Accomedion is a new musical instrument application that combines a keyboard harmonica and an accordion.

Sound sources from keyboard harmonica are used, and chord buttons similar to the ones on accordion are attached. The wide range of tunes will be played as …

Jango Launches Music Vertical Advertising Network

US music site Jango announced the launch of Jango Music Network (JMN), dubbing it as the world's largest and most targeted cost-effective ad network for the music vertical.

The current JMN inventory of music sites reach a collective total of 30 million unique monthly …

Yahoo Closes RSS Ads, But This Is Only Small Part of Big Change Coming

It has been reported by the Silicon Alley Insider that Yahoo is closing their RSS Advertising solution.

Not much word on why -- a Yahoo spokeswoman provided this statement to SAI:

Yahoo! is closing its Ads in RSS effective February 2, 2009. The beta program, which …

AOL's Platform-A Forms Strategic Partnership with FreeCreditReport.com

Top 25 Web Celebrities of 2009 According to Forbes

At number one, we have "The Queen of Mean" himself herself, Perez Hilton.

Let's run through the rest of the list...

#1 Perez Hilton

#2 Michael Arrington

#3 Kevin Rose

#4 Frank Warren

#5 Cory Doctorow

#6 Pete Cashmore

#7 Beppe Grillo

#8 Heather Armstrong

#9 Guy …

Front Page of Digg Impossible? Try HYPick For Better Results

Often, users of Digg comment how they enjoy some of the content, but that readers notice that the same individuals get their

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stories on the front page time and time again. Users that try their hardest to get their stories on the front page fail more often …

Top Money Making MMO Games of 2008

Over at GigaOM they have put together a great list of the top 10 money making MMO games of 2008.

1. World of Warcraft, launched 2004

Genre/Platform: Western MMORPG; client install with 3D graphics

Revenue sources: Monthly subscription, retails sales, prepaid cards (in …

Nurture: Social Bookmarking Icon Pack for Free

Over at Tutorial9 and Smashing Mag they have just released a new icon pack for everyone. This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

Nurture is a Social Bookmark Icon Pack. …

MyBuxNetworks: Is This The Worst Ad Network You Have Ever Seen?

I received a very interesting email this morning from a new advertising network called MyBuxNetworks.com. They are offering a CPM and a CPC solution with also a referral option. The network seemed interesting in the email, however it was a totally different story when I …

Live Nation and Ticketmaster to Merge

Are Live Nation and Ticketmaster planning to merge?

Amazon Launches Casual Gaming Download Store

Amazon has launched on Tuesday a new video game download store. The site itself can be found here. The initial library offers over 600 games which are all under $10. All casual games are currently for the PC platform, but Im sure this will branch out in the near …

Skype 4.0 for Windows Launches

The new Skype is here. Skype 4.0 for Windows have launched which offers full-screen video calling, crystal clear call quality and better usability. There's also the usual free voice and video calls to other Skype users, instant messaging, SMS, and call to landlines and …

Microsoft Songsmith Provides Musical Mockeries!

In the words of John Cougar Mellencamp, both the commerical for Microsoft Songsmith and the number of parody tunes that have been released "hurt so good."

The Songsmith commercial caused a ripple of laughter when the painful commercial made its rounds on the internet. …

Thank You Sponsors for January

At Crenk our mission is to explore the very latest web technology products and trends. Here are Crenk we have a great group of sponsors who support our goals and allow us to bring you the latest tech products and trends. So once a month we like to thank all our generous …

Adphilia Launches New Site and is Seeing Growth Against the Trends

Some of you may already know that I'm CEO at Insomnia which ownes a Site Representation firm called Adphilia. I wanted to announce on Crenk that we have been making some key changes to Adphilia over the last few months that has produced some amazing results.

Adphilia is …

Kayne West Has Had His Twitter, Gmail and Myspace Accounts Hacked

There has been lots of news recently about Twitter accounts being hacked from several stars, including Britney Spears. Today there is a new star who has been hacked and he hasnt just lost his Twitter account but also his Gmail and Myspace accounts.

The hackers were …