{"id":40259,"date":"2009-11-11T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/?p=79341"},"modified":"2009-11-11T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T23:00:22","slug":"the-crunchies-are-back-for-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40259","title":{"rendered":"The Crunchies Are Back for Round 3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crunchies2009.techcrunch.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/crunchieslogo.jpg?w=184&#038;h=64\" alt=\"crunchieslogo.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"64\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The Crunchies, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/11\/19\/here-come-the-crunchies-again\/\">after two successful years<\/a>, are back to celebrate the entrepreneurs and startups that make technology such an exciting industry. As always, we will be co-hosting the awards &#8212; for which nominations are now being accepted &#8212; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturebeat.com\">VentureBeat<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/crunchies-2008-photo-gallery\/\">Check out the photos from last year<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Details of the event <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchies2009.techcrunch.com\/\">can be found here<\/a>. The awards ceremony will be held Friday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 pm at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco and will be followed by an after-party across the street in City Hall\u2019s Grand Rotunda. The nominations for the third annual awards ceremony honoring <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchies2009.techcrunch.com\/vote\">the best technology achievements of 2009 will<\/a> remain open through midnight PST on Friday, Dec. 4th. The Crunchies Committee will select five finalists for each of the 18 award categories; final votes will be cast between Dec. 12th and midnight PST on Jan. 6th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=79341&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=-UjzKeIrfeU:HnshtsbQKQY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/-UjzKeIrfeU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crunchies, after two successful years, are back to celebrate the entrepreneurs and startups that make technology such an exciting industry. As always, we will be co-hosting the awards &#8212; for which nominations are now being accepted &#8212; with VentureBeat and TechCrunch. (Check out the photos from last year.) Details of the event can be [&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-40259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259","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=40259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}