{"id":159946,"date":"2010-01-09T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/09\/dropbox-foursquare-facebook-winners-at-the-crunchies\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:24:35","slug":"dropbox-foursquare-facebook-winners-at-the-crunchies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/159946","title":{"rendered":"DropBox, Foursquare, Facebook Winners at The Crunchies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4d2df_crunchiesphoto2.png?w=348&amp;h=261\" alt=\"crunchiesphoto2.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"348\" height=\"261\" class=\" alignleft\" \/>) Facebook and Zynga were among the winners at the Crunchies 2009 awards, held last evening in San Francisco&#8217;s Herbst Theater. The third annual award ceremony that is co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat &amp; GigaOM, saw a mix of new and old technology companies share limelight in front of a sold out audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crunchies2009\/4258419203\/sizes\/s\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4d2df_4258419203_d29cd55bc0_m.jpeg?w=160&amp;h=240\" alt=\"4258419203_d29cd55bc0_m.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" class=\" alignleft\" \/><\/a><strong>Dropbox<\/strong> and <strong>Foursquare<\/strong>, two of my favorite applications won <strong>the Best Internet Application<\/strong> and <strong>Best Mobile Application<\/strong> awards respectively. <strong>Spotify<\/strong> was named <strong>the best International start-up<\/strong>. <strong>Animoto<\/strong> won <strong>the Best Design Award. <\/strong> <strong>Ron Conway of SV Angel was the Angel investor of the year. <\/strong>Mark Pinucs of Zynga was named CEO of the Year, while <strong>Aaron Patzer<\/strong> of Mint was named <strong>Founder of the year<\/strong>. Best overall start-up\/product of the year was Facebook, which won the category third year in a row. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/08\/crunchies-winner\/\">The complete winners&#8217; list is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/\">Photo by Scott Beale\/Laughing Squid<\/a>. 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The third annual award ceremony that is co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat &amp; GigaOM, saw a mix of new and old technology companies share limelight in front of a sold out audience. Dropbox and Foursquare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}