Profilactic has been kicking ass in the social media aggregator space since the Fall of 2006; however, we've never been featured on TechCrunch. We've been mentioned once and TC commenters have given us some shout-outs, but we've never been reviewed on the site.

My theory is that TC wants to be seen as the forward-looking early adopter. If they cover a startup that has been around for almost 18 months, it will hurt their street cred as being ahead of the curve. Again, this is just my theory as to why they have covered just about every other social media aggregator that has launched since we have, but not us. Heck, they even covered iminta.com!

Anyway, yesterday, I saw their story about a Google Map for startups, so I submitted Profilactic for inclusion on the map. I figured that being in Louisville, KY would give us some prime, uncrowded real estate right in the middle of the map. Looks like it worked.


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One unintended side effect of getting into the middle of the Google Map is that the Profilactic logo shows up on the embedded map on TechCrunch. Maybe they'll notice us now :)