TechCrunch - the most popular blog in the world of IT

TechCrunch - perhaps the most famous tehnoblog in the world with extreme army of readers. The first article on TechCrunch was published in 2005 (the founding father - Michael Arrington), and in just five years since the first publication, this blog turned into a media giant with an annual turnover of several million dollars, making the owner is very popular and rich.

Why TechCrunch has earned such popularity? The main reason I think that it's hard to find a thematic project that generates a flow of information. At the TechCrunch daily published dozens of posts on the most relevant technical topics. And often, it is absolutely unique information from the original source, which certainly is a credit to a sufficiently large group of talented writers and managers TechCrunch (according to section Staff only over the central project employs about 50 people!). Once read an interview with founder Michael Arrington, who talked about his first attempts to find links and attempts to get information from "first hand". A little later, with the advent of popularity, all already own it so nazvanivala "merge" the information into the network.

In fact, today, TechCrunch has a blog is hardly in the sense in which it was a few years ago, rather it is a major theme news portal and an entire media network includes the following structural units:

• TechCrunch - the original global Tehkranch. The basic backbone project. The number of RSS subscribers> 4,000,000;
• CrunchBase - a database of companies (based on more than 46,000 companies), and other eminent persons;
• TechCrunchTV - Official TV TechCrunch;
• CrunchGear - gadgets, "iron". The number of RSS subscribers> 70.000;
• MobilCrunch - mobile devices, all connected with them. The number of RSS subscribers> 40.000;
• TechCrunchIT - IT-industry. The number of RSS subscribers> 20.000;
• TechCrunch Europe - The European division of TechCrunch. The number of RSS subscribers> 20.000;
• TechCrunchIT France - The French division of TechCrunch. The number of RSS subscribers> 90.000;
• TechCrunchIT Japan - The Japanese unit of TechCrunch (the number of RSS subscribers could not be determined);
• GillmorGang - a weekly video podcast, Steve Gilmour;
• GreenTech - "green" technology.

To this is added a number of lesser-known today projects / subprojects - InviteShare, Crunchies Awards, Elevator Pitches, TechCrunch Trends and others (with the above projects can be found if the list of topics at the very top of the TechCrunch press «more»). Certainly the amount of information is simply amazing, did Michael Arrington at the beginning of his career on what "edifice" he can create.

Project Design TechCrunch easy to read. Initially, you can even lose a little in all this variety and endless stream of information, but the main aspects of a very cleverly underlined. For example, just below the main sections of the menu and you will find a block saydproektami "What's Hot", which collected the most relevant tags - Thread: Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, Zynga. In the sidebar will find information on the most popular commentaries, views, or Facebook.

Making the individual also holds positions in a minimalist, but effective style - the first addition of the following buttons to social bookmarking sites, at the very end - the accompanying information from a database of companies and projects CrunchBase. As the comment system, incidentally, used Disqus , the blogosphere is gaining increasing popularity.

Tehkranch was often the harbinger of breaking news, and indeed for many online publications in runet and around the world it is used as the primary source of information. So, if you're interested in and follow the development of technology, feel free to subscribe to updates TechCrunch.