{"id":159876,"date":"2010-01-09T22:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=90652"},"modified":"2010-01-09T22:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:14:31","slug":"winners-at-the-crunchies-dropbox-foursquare-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/159876","title":{"rendered":"Winners at the Crunchies: DropBox, Foursquare, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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, co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOM, saw a mix of new and old technology companies share the limelight in front of a sold-out audience.<\/p>\n

Dropbox<\/strong> and Foursquare<\/strong>, two of my favorite applications, won the best Internet application<\/strong> and best mobile application<\/strong> awards, respectively. Spotify<\/strong> was named the best international startup<\/strong>. Animoto<\/strong> won the best design <\/strong>award. <\/strong> Ron Conway of SV Angel <\/strong>was the angel investor of the year. Mark Pinucs <\/strong>of Zynga was named CEO of the year<\/strong>, while Aaron Patzer<\/strong> of Mint was named foun<\/strong><\/p>\n

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der of the year<\/strong>. Best overall startup\/product of the year was Facebook, which won the category third year in a row. \u00a0Congratulations to all winners and those who were nominated for various categories. See you all next year. (The complete winners’ list is here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Photo by Scott Beale\/Laughing Squid<\/a>. More photos on my personal blog, OmIs.Me<\/a><\/p>\n

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