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 / achievementEarthmineLikeMove NetworksTwineViewdleBest bootstrapped start-upFriendFeedPoliticalBaseProductWikiTechmemeUpNextBest new gadget / deviceiphoneKindleOomaPleoWiiBest business modelGlam MediaImeemProsperWeatherbillZazzleBest designEtsyJackson Fish MarketNetvibesSmugmugSongzaBest enterprise start-up37SignalsAttributorEditGridRibbitZohoBest consumer start-up1800FREE41123andMeLinkedInMeeboZillowBest mobile start-upAdMobFringLooptShozuTwitterBest international start-upAtlassianGizmozMusicShakeNetvibesOpenAdsBest user-generated contentDiggFacebookGeniInstructablesYelpBest video siteAniboomHuluJoostJustin.tvTokboxBest clean tech start-upA123 SystemsAusraGridpointNanoSolarTesla MotorsBest use of viral marketingFlixsteriLikeiminlikewithyouRockYouStumbleUponBest time sink siteCollege HumorDuelskdiceKongregatePandoraMost likely to make the world a better placeCausesDonorsChooseKivaOne laptop per childZeroFootprintMost likely to succeedKayakMintSlideWordpressZivityBest start-up founderReid HoffmanMax LevchinKevin RoseEvan WilliamsMark ZuckerbergBest start-up CEOGina BianchiniDick CostoloToni SchneiderRob SolomonLance TakodaBest new start-up of 2007HuluiMedixJoostRibbitTumblrBest overallDiggFacebookGrandCentralTwitterZillow 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! 😉
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)