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Conde Nast, the New York based publisher that recently acquired Reddit, a YCombinator backed company, has launched Portfolio, a new magazine that will chronicle “the intrigue, excitement, and power that attract people to the business world-and the people behind the radical innovations and change taking place.”

The first few stories that I got to read on Portfolio are quiet impressive and VentureBeat thinks that the magazine will surely make waves in its space. For those of you, who might not be knowing Wired is also a Conde Nast magazine.

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I now have been covering startups since a month. Its a hard and daunting task with so many startups poping up every day from all corners of the world. I thought it would be worth while to cover other such blogs, see how they are doing and if they have a special angle to it. So lets jump to it.

Techcrunch is definitely not the oldest blog to cover startups but it sure owns the no 1 spot with a Google page rank of 8 and Technorati rank of 9. Techcrunch generates around 1,10,000+ visits and 1,35,000+ pageviews a day, and has around 3,42,000 subscribers. Techcrunch is edited by Michael Arrington and now spans a network of blogs ranging from domain focused ones to location centric ones. Techcrunch covers startups in general and other technology news and has become famous for its spicy and crunch reviews. Techcrunch recently scored a big win for the blogsphere by attracting an executive from Fox Interactive Media, a large media company.

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