{"id":164041,"date":"2010-01-11T03:06:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/11\/congratulations-to-facebook-bing-and-the-other-crunchies-winners\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:06:18","slug":"congratulations-to-facebook-bing-and-the-other-crunchies-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164041","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Facebook, Bing, and the other Crunchies winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"zuckerberg<\/a>We held the Crunchies, the awards that honor the year’s achievements in technology, on Friday in San Francisco. 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>) from VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall in the photo above, as well as Zynga’s Mark Pincus, triumphantly brandishing his CEO of the Year award in the photo below.<\/p>\n

Best Technology Achievement:
\n<\/strong> Backblaze
\nBing (Microsoft)
\nChrome OS (Google) (Winner)
\nGoogle Wave (Runner Up)
\nPuSH
\nSilverlight (Microsoft)<\/p>\n

Best Internet Application:<\/strong>
\nAnimoto
\nDropbox (Winner)
\nGroupon
\nMOG All Access
\nPosterous
\nYelp (Runner Up)<\/p>\n

Best Social App:<\/strong>
\nAardvark
\nBrizzly
\nDailyBooth (Runner Up)
\nFarmville(Winner)
\nSocialVibe
\nStockTwits<\/p>\n

Best Bootstrapped Startup:<\/strong>
\natebits (Tweetie)
\nShoes of Prey
\nTinychat (Winner)
\nWildfire Interactive (Runner Up)
\nwizehive
\nWufoo<\/p>\n

Best Mobile Application:<\/strong>
\nfoursquare (Winner)
\nGoogle Voice
\nGowalla (Runner Up)
\nKindle for iPhone
\nSkies of Glory
\nTonchidot<\/p>\n

Best International:<\/strong>
\nAmiando
\nJolicloud
\nPlayfish (Runner Up)
\nSpotify (Winner)
\nTweetDeck
\nvente-privee.com<\/p>\n

Best Time Sink Application:<\/strong>
\nCanabalt
\nCivilization Revolution (iPhone)
\nDailyBooth (Winner)
\nI Am T-Pain
\nPandora (Runner Up)
\nZoosk<\/p>\n

Best Design:<\/strong>
\nAnimoto (Winner)
\nBrizzly
\nChrome (Google)
\nClicker
\nFacebook Mobile (Runner Up)
\nThreadsy<\/p>\n

Best Enterprise:<\/strong>
\nAmazon Web Services
\nAtlassian (Runner Up)
\nAzure (Microsoft)
\nChatter (Salesforce)
\nGoogle Docs\/Office (Winner)
\nYext<\/p>\n

Best CleanTech:<\/strong>
\nCalStar Products
\nLocust Storage
\nPicarro
\nSappphire Energy (Runner Up)
\nSun Run (Winner)
\nTendril<\/p>\n

Best New Gadget:<\/strong>
\nApple Magic Mouse (Runner Up)
\nBarnes & Noble nook (Winner)
\nlitl webbookMotorola Droid
\nSonos S5
\nZune HD<\/p>\n

Best Tech PR:<\/strong>
\nBrew Media Relations
\nLaunchSquad
\nOutCast Communications (Runner Up)
\nPerkettPR
\nSpark (Winner)
\nSutherlandGold Group<\/p>\n

Best Angel:<\/strong>
\nBetaworks
\nChris Sacca (Lowercase Capital)
\nJeff Clavier (SoftTechVC)
\nRon Conway (SV Angel) (Winner)
\nY-Combinator (Runner Up)
\nYossi Vardi<\/p>\n

Best VC Firm:<\/strong>
\nAccel Partners (Winner)
\nCharles River Ventures
\nBenchmark Capital
\nGreylock Partners (Runner Up)
\nSequoia Capital
\nTrue Ventures
\nUnion Square Ventures<\/p>\n

Founder Of The Year:<\/strong>
\nAaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner)
\nElon Musk (Tesla)
\nJack Dorsey (Square)
\nJeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp) (Runner Up)
\nJohn Borthwick (Betaworks)
\nOmar Hamoui (AdMob)<\/p>\n

\"pincus<\/a>CEO Of The Year:<\/strong>
\nJosh Silverman (Skype) (Runner Up)
\nMarc Benioff (Salesforce)
\nMark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner)
\nNeil Young (ngmoco)
\nRichard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
\nTony Hsieh (Zappos)<\/p>\n

Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:<\/strong>
\nAardvark (Runner Up)
\nBing (Microsoft) (Winner)
\nFoursquare
\nHunch
\nMilo
\nSpotify<\/p>\n

Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009:
\n<\/strong> Android (Google)
\nFacebook (Winner)
\nLinkedIn
\nngmoco
\nTwitter (Runner Up)
\nZynga<\/p>\n

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