The nomination process for the Crunchies is complete. You've helped us narrow the list of possible winners for the awards, and it's now time to vote on them.
The Crunchies is a joint effort between us, GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and TechCrunch, and aims to recognize the best technology innovations and start-up achievements.
Some 82,000 nominations were made for companies in each of twenty categories. Five companies in each category have made it to the final vote. Starting now, you can vote for the startups you think are the leaders in each of the categories, ranging from “best business model” to “best CEO.”
Voting goes through January 10. An Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 at the
A word on sponsorships. If you'd like to sponsor a particular Crunchie award, contact us here. We at VentureBeat are especially proud of the clean-tech award, because we think that sector is so important right now. But the other award categories are all noteworthy too, from "best bootstrapped," to "best start-up of 2007," to "best overall" (see full list below). Many thanks to the existing sponsors Adobe, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Microsoft, OurStage and Sun for assisting us with the event - we could not do it without them.
If you're a finalist, congratulations on making it this far. You can grab a
Best technology innovation / achievement Earthmine Like Move Networks Twine Viewdle
Best bootstrapped start-up FriendFeed PoliticalBase ProductWiki Techmeme UpNext
Best new gadget / deviceiphone Kindle Ooma Pleo Wii
Best business modelGlam 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 Tokuda
Best new start-up of 2007 Hulu iMedix Joost Ribbit Tumblr
Best overall Digg Facebook GrandCentral Twitter Zillow