The votes are in! When all said and done, over 300,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories. Along with our partners TechCrunch and GigaOm, we're proud to announce this year’s finalists for the 2011 Crunchies Awards, which are taking place January 31 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
Voting starts now, and everyone is and encouraged to vote. You may vote once per day, per award category, until voting closes on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 11:59pm PST. There are 20 categories open for voting, recognizing the top accomplishments across a variety of fields and roles.
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In addition to today’s announcement of the finalists, we're releasing a small batch of tickets. These tickets are available now, so act fast and get them while you can. You can buy them here.
Without further ado, here are your finalists:
Best Technology Achievement (2010 winner: Google Self Driving Cars) Lytro NFC OnLive Siri Tesla Flat Pack Battery
Best Social Application (2010 winner: DailyBooth) Facebook Timeline Instagram Google + The New New Twitter Path 2.0
Best Shopping Application (2010 winner: Groupon) Birchbox Fab Gilt Groupe Lot 18 Warby Parker
Best Mobile Application (2010 winner: Google Mobile Maps for Android) Evernote Flipboard Pandora Spotify Square Task Rabbit
Best Location Application (New category for 2011) Airbnb Foursquare Grindr RunKeeper Uber
Best Tablet Application (2010 winner: Flipboard) djay Eventbrite At the Door Fotopedia GarageBand Netflix StumbleUpon
Best Design (2010 winner: gogobot) Gojee Orchestra Path 2.0 Pinterest Quora
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired) Github Imgur Instapaper One Sheet Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)
Best Cloud Service (New category for 2011) Asana Box CloudFlare Dropbox Okta Twilio
Best International Startup (2010 winner: Viki) Badoo Klarna Peixe Urbano Rovio SoundCloud Wonga
Best Clean Tech Startup (2010 winner: SolarCity) Alta Energy Array Power EcoATM Eco Motors Hara
Best New Device (2010 winner: iPad) Galaxy Nexus iPad 2 iPhone 4S Kindle Fire Nest
Best Time Sink (2010 winner: Cityville) Modern Warfare 3 Quora Skyrim Turntable.fm Words With Friends
Biggest Social Impact (New category for 2011) Charity: Water Khan Academy Kickstarter Practice Fusion Twitter
Angel of the Year (2010 winner: Paul Graham) Ron Conway Paul Graham Reid Hoffman Keith Rabois Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi Kevin Rose
VC of the Year (2010 winner: Yuri Milner) Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz Matt Cohler Vinod Khosla Aileen Lee Yuri Milner David Sze
Founder of the Year (2010 winner: Mark Pincus) Leah Busque (Task Rabbit) Brian Chesky (Airbnb) Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter) Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane) Drew Houston (Dropbox)
CEO of the Year (2010 winner: Andrew Mason) Dick Costolo (Twitter) Daniel Ek (Spotify) Phil Libin (Evernote) Mark Pincus (Zynga) Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn)
Best New Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Quora) Codeacademy Fab Nest Pinterest Turntable.fm
Best Overall Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Twitter) Dropbox Instagram Gilt Groupe Spotify Square Tumblr