I’m a fan of TechCrunch and Michael Arrington is my latest idol. Their CruchBase is what I want to do for Blognone Library. A free & open knowledge base for specific domain without peddling rules like Wikipedia. My #1 usage of CrunchBase is “competitor” box within any product/company page to see who are players in that game. Very useful for my analysis.

However, Tim O’Reilly thought there are too many links from any given TechCrunch news to CrunchBase, which I agree. Linking to knowledge base instead of that company site breaks the web utility, according to O’Reilly.

TechCrunch argued O’Reilly in this post but from TechCrunch readers’ comment, it’s clear that O’Reilly is right.

CrunchBase concept is very good but implementation needs to care more on what readers expect.