DropBox, Foursquare, Facebook Winners at The Crunchies

) Facebook and Zynga were among the winners at the Crunchies 2009 awards, held last evening in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. The third annual award ceremony that is co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat & GigaOM, saw a mix of new and old technology companies share limelight in front of a sold out audience.

Dropbox and Foursquare, two of my favorite applications won the Best Internet Application and Best Mobile Application awards respectively. Spotify was named the best International start-up. Animoto won the Best Design Award. Ron Conway of SV Angel was the Angel investor of the year. Mark Pinucs of Zynga was named CEO of the Year, while Aaron Patzer of Mint was named Founder of the year. Best overall start-up/product of the year was Facebook, which won the category third year in a row. (The complete winners’ list is here.