TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

And the impact of the Techcrunch is such that it literally developed into a thumbs up or down signal for startups. The most important mention for an ambitious web2.0 Startup is either in Sequoia Capitals or at Techcrunch. Techcrunch is connected to several other crunch-related blogs and builds the so called The TechCrunch Network including a French and a Japanese site. A useful link is the company index where you will find all the startups Techcrunch was gracious to write about. Former Techcrunch writer Sam Sethi  discusses web2.0 and startups now in his also very succesful blognation.

The blog ranks 4th of the most read blogs in the world and has a Technorati Atuhority of 24,983 (Techcrunchs´s first article was about Technorati) and that’s a really remarkable rank for a blog run as a “hobby” (I also want a 200.000 US$ revenue hobby) as the sympathetic geek Micheal Arrington -founder and Head of Techcrunch- says. Though Techcrunch appears very professional I like the very personal description of himself and the cute picture of himself and his dad. But Michael also can be a womanizer, check out his flickr picture: a very funny picture shows the edgio founder as a hunk loved by the beauties.  

Anyway Micheal Arringtons Techcrunch is one of the most interessting information sources for me, I read it almost every day (besides Mashable) and I always like the articles, they are sophisticated, informative and nicely written. It’s simply the bible of web2.0 I promptly believe.