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! 😉
