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Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards

The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we’re co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. You can vote here, once a day.

There are bound to be startups disappointed not to have made the cut – and indeed a few of my own favorites didn’t make it. But that is the nature of awards. We received thousands of nominations and the 4 host blogs went back and forth many times to agree on our finalists. Check out the full list below and then go and start voting 🙂 If you’re a finalist, you may want to add a badge to your site to encourage people to vote for you.

Best technology innovation / achievement

Earthmine

Like

Move Networks

Twine

Viewdle



Best bootstrapped start-up

FriendFeed

PoliticalBase

ProductWiki

Techmeme

UpNext



Best new gadget / device

iphone

Kindle

Ooma

Pleo

Wii



Best business model

Glam Media

Imeem

Prosper

Weatherbill

Zazzle



Best design

Etsy

Jackson Fish Market

Netvibes

Smugmug

Songza



Best enterprise start-up

37Signals

Attributor

EditGrid

Ribbit

Zoho



Best consumer start-up

1800FREE411

23andMe

LinkedIn

Meebo

Zillow



Best mobile start-up

AdMob

Fring

Loopt

Shozu

Twitter



Best international start-up

Atlassian

Gizmoz

MusicShake

Netvibes

OpenAds



Best user-generated content

Digg

Facebook

Geni

Instructables

Yelp



Best video site

Aniboom

Hulu

Joost

Justin.tv

Tokbox



Best clean tech start-up

A123 Systems

Ausra

Gridpoint

NanoSolar

Tesla Motors



Best use of viral marketing

Flixster

iLike

iminlikewithyou

RockYou

StumbleUpon



Best time sink site

College Humor

Duels

kdice

Kongregate

Pandora



Most likely to make the world a better place

Causes

DonorsChoose

Kiva

One laptop per child

ZeroFootprint



Most likely to succeed

Kayak

Mint

Slide

WordPress

Zivity



Best start-up founder

Reid Hoffman

Max Levchin

Kevin Rose

Evan Williams

Mark Zuckerberg



Best start-up CEO

Gina Bianchini

Dick Costolo

Toni Schneider

Rob Solomon

Lance Takoda



Best new start-up of 2007

Hulu

iMedix

Joost

Ribbit

Tumblr



Best overall

Digg

Facebook

GrandCentral

Twitter

Zillow  


Thanks to the sponsors:  Adobe, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Microsoft, OurStage and Sun.

The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 at the Herbst
Theater – across the street from City Hall in San Francisco.

Now get voting! 😉

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