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Crenk, founded on September 22, 2007, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing Internet products and companies.


Who Will Be The Next Yahoo CEO? Jerry Yang DepartsNovember 18

Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and its CEO since June 2007, is stepping down from the Chief Executive spot as soon as a yet-to-be-named successor is appointed. Yang will be staying with the company in the role of “Chief Yahoo” and maintaining a seat on the company’s board of directors.

In a statement released this evening, company Chairman Roy Bostock says: “Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level. We are deeply grateful to Jerry for his many contributions as CEO over the past 18 months, and we are pleased that he plans to stay actively involved at Yahoo! as a key executive and member of the Board.”

So now the question has been asked, who is going to be the next Yahoo CEO?

Who else is reporting Yang’s departure, Mashable, RWW, Cnet,

Hotmail Show Banner Display Advertising in the Wrong SizesNovember 18

I have been noticing a lot lately that there has been numerous times on very large sites, in which I have seen banner display advertising of a certain size in a position of a completely different size. In this instance it was found on my Hotmail account home page. As we all know Hotmail is owned by Microsoft and Im sure Blackberry wouldnt be happy seeing their advertising dollars going to waste cause you cant see half the ad.

Why would Hotmail do this? Simple, because currently the best sized ads for display advertising in which pays the most is 300×250, so that is the ad they are showing, however showing it in a 728×90 slot which normally generates less.

I would be keen to make a list of other sites who also have the same practices. So far we have:

  • Hotmail
  • The Pirate Bay

Who else?

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AT&T Finally Tethers the iPhoneNovember 16
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Users of the iPhone have long been looking for ways to utilize their powerful mobile phone as a portal to access internet from their laptops. Most cell phone by the major providers make it it possible to tap into the phone’s network and access it through the user’s laptop. Unfortunately the iPhone was never given such an ability so it fell to the development community to create their own applications.

It was not long that homebrew applications were created to tether the iPhone to a laptop, but Apple heavy handedly shut down the application and refused to support such an application, more because of the contract with AT&T rather then outright unhappiness of what the application did. Still, when the iPhone was “jail broken” tethering became an option and users were frantically trying to share the information with the masses and get them on board in support of jail breaking the iPhone. Apple turned around and said that no Apple store or mail location would support an iPhone out of service due to a botched jail break

Microsoft Is Turning Live.com Into a Social Network To Compete With Facebook and MyspaceNovember 13

Microsoft have now made the decision to turn the Live.com site into a social network that will compete directly with Facebook and Myspace.

Microsoft Windows Live senior director Ryan Gavin has outlined why he is excited about the raft of social networking improvement in the new software, admitting that this would have been a more appropriate time to launch the ‘Live’ brand.

Talking to TechRadar, Gavin expressed his belief that Windows Live was a step in the right direction in giving people a platform to bring all of their social interactions together on the web.

“When I think about what’s happening online today it still is really two things – what’s happening in my world and what’s happening in the world and fundamentally those two activities make up 65 per cent of online usage.

“What’s happening in my world is where Windows Live is – in the communications and sharing section that makes up 33 per cent of the time online and includes email, instant messaging and social networking. Social networking has come on very strong as the third leg of that stool.

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Hotmail and what was formely MSN instant messenger make up the cornerstone of Windows Live’s audience, but adding in the social networking aspect is of paramount importance to Gavin.

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We7 Launches Out of Beta with a Bang and a lot of New FeaturesNovember 12

After spending months in public beta and lots of changes to the ad supports music service, We7 is about to launch out of beta with a bang.

We7 have launched with a “Big Listen” campaign. This new service has some great new features including Free on-demand, unlimited access to full tracks and albums, “Search, Click & Play”, A ‘Celestial Jukebox’ with several million track, ‘Play Anywhere’ - a link and play system for blogs and websites, Users can create playlists, share with friends and buy mp3’s, Payments to rights owners and artists.

The first thing you will notice with the new site is that they have a completely new design. Other new additions include a Magazine, Blog and a much improved list of advertisers. Im sure we will be hearing a lot more from We7 in 2009!

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