We held the Crunchies awards on Friday in San Francisco -- the awards that honor the year's highest achievers in technology. The awards were co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat, who also selected the nominees. But the ultimate winners were chosen by the readers who voted at the Crunchies website.
Here's a list of the nominees, with the winners highlighted. You can see Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Best Overall Startup winner Facebook, receiving his award and a bottle of Vitamin water (don't ask me, I was in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show) from VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall in the photo above. And Zynga's Mark Pincus triumphantly brandishes his CEO of the Year award in the photo at bottom.
Best Technology Achievement: Backblaze Bing (Microsoft) Chrome OS (Google) (Winner) Google Wave (Runner Up) PuSH Silverlight (Microsoft)
Best Internet Application:Animoto Dropbox (Winner) Groupon MOG All Access Posterous Yelp (Runner Up)
Best Social App:Aardvark Brizzly DailyBooth (Runner Up) Farmville (Winner) SocialVibe StockTwits
Best Bootstrapped Startup:atebits (Tweetie) Shoes of Prey Tinychat (Winner) Wildfire Interactive (Runner Up) wizehive Wufoo
Best Mobile Application:foursquare (Winner) Google Voice Gowalla (Runner Up) Kindle for iPhone Skies of Glory Tonchidot
Best International:Amiando Jolicloud Playfish (Runner Up) Spotify (Winner) TweetDeck vente-privee.com
Best Time Sink Application:Canabalt Civilization Revolution (iPhone) DailyBooth (Winner) I Am T-Pain Pandora (Runner Up) Zoosk
Best Design:Winner) Brizzly Chrome (Google) Clicker Facebook Mobile (Runner Up) Threads
Best Enterprise:Amazon Web Services Atlassian (Runner Up) Azure (Microsoft) Chatter (Salesforce) Google Docs/Office (Winner) Yext
Best CleanTech:CalStar Products Locust Storage Picarro Sappphire Energy (Runner Up) Sun Run (Winner) Tendril
Best New Gadget:Apple Magic Mouse (Runner Up) Barnes & Noble nook (Winner) litl webbookMotorola Droid Sonos S5 Zune HD
Best Tech PR:Brew Media Relations LaunchSquad OutCast Communications (Runner Up) PerkettPR Spark (Winner) SutherlandGold Group
Best Angel:Betaworks Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital) Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC) Ron Conway (SV Angel) (Winner) Y-Combinator (Runner Up) Yossi Vardi
Best VC Firm:Accel Partners (Winner) Charles River Ventures Benchmark Capital Greylock Partners (Runner Up) Sequoia Capital True Ventures Union Square Ventures
Founder Of The Year:Aaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner) Elon Musk (Tesla) Jack Dorsey (Square) Jeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp) (Runner Up) John Borthwick (Betaworks) Omar Hamoui (AdMob)
CEO Of The Year:Josh Silverman (Skype) (Runner Up) Marc Benioff (Salesforce) Mark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner) Neil Young (ngmoco) Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media) Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:Aardvark (Runner Up) Bing (Microsoft) (Winner) Foursquare Hunch Milo Spotify
Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009: Android (Google) Facebook (Winner) LinkedIn ngmoco Twitter (Runner Up) Zynga
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