"TinyCrunch" Guys Strike Again: Start Ripping Off Mashable

Michael Learmonth | September 3, 2008 4:00 PM

tinycrunch2hack.jpgLast week we talked to the guys behind tinyCrunch, a site that condenses TechCrunch posts into bulleted (Blackberry-friendly!) items for the time-pressed tech professional. Back then, the "tiny" guys, Matthew Glueckert and Jason Wilk, said they'd be launching new "verticals" for what they're calling a "newswire for blogs" in the near future.

Today they delivered with -- you guessed it -- "tinyMash," a feed of Mashable posts condensed into four- and five-bullet posts. Gleuckert and Wilk say they reached out to Mike Arrington of TechCrunch before launching "tinyCrunch." They got no official response, but today Arrington gave them their first link. Before launching tinyMash they sent Mashable an email heads-up -- posted below -- and also got nothing in response.

Should tinyCrunch, tinyMash or tinyAnything exist? TinyCrunch is taking a survey.

Mashable,

        We would like to make you aware of our launch of tinyMash.com. We are a micro tech blog newswire and Mashable is one of the first blogs we are giving coverage too. We wanted to email you first to make sure that you do not have any issues with the name. We are huge fans of Mashable, been reading you since the beginning. If you would like to talk, we are available any time of the day to speak offline. Hope this finds you well.

Regards,
Jason and Glu
tinyComb.com

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steveo said:
easy to read on my iphone. ill stick with em.
alex88 said:
how are they a ripoff? look at all the other sites that copy articles verbatim...
jared said:
I don't see anything wrong with this site. If you look around to site's like knowmedia.wordpress.com (techcrunch shows a trackback to them), they purely just copy and paste the original article from techcrunch verbatim and link back. Looks like these 'tiny' guys are just spitting out raw facts from the story and then asking questions to readers, plus a link back to the source. I went through their first page of content and tinycrunch had some original stories in there too. Looks like the name is suggestive, but other than that, I dont see any problems. I think ill start reading on my mobile.
nathan said:
looks useful
mike said:
What a great idea...will definitely be using in the future
Dee said:
3rd post on these guys already? Are you angling for a tinySAI or something? I would give them more respect if their sites weren't using an out-of-the-box free WordPress theme.

There is some value here with the glut of news we have to face, but how will the site ever get a big following? Who would link to a post on their site instead of the real thing? And best of all, if the service ever does take off, the blogs they're covering will just launch their own summaries.
johnny cash said:
I think these guys are smarter than that. Theyre obviously getting big buzz, saw them getting coverage on a few other sites today. Wouldn't be surprised to see them flip the switch on other businesses to make it a bigger operation or just aggregate all the posts together. This could be big i think. You sure these writers havent given you fake names?
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DNO said:
tinysai.com; tinyinsider.com; tinysilicon.com.

All still available.
LFerguson (URL) said:
Michael,

You should tell Henry that Digital Marketing Digest not only takes every TechCrunch article (word for word) but does the same for SAI articles.

I'm not going to link to them, but it appears that imitation is the best form of flattery.
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LiveCRUNCH (URL) said:
So what you are saying is that TechMeme.com even tho is automated aggregator does the same shi** right? Yet you love them because it gives you 200-300 visitors . Wow

Find some other tech news to write about this is getting boring. You started off bashing on me, but you saw what happen ...right?

Are you guys losing visitors so you need some link juice?

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