Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards

The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we’re co-hosting with Techcrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. You can vote here, once a day.

There are bound to be startups disappointed not to have made the cut - and indeed a few of my own favorites didn’t make it. But that is the nature of awards. We received thousands of nominations and the 4 host blogs went back and forth many times to agree on our finalists. Check out the full list below and then go and start voting :-) If you’re a finalist, you may want to add a badge to your site to encourage people to vote for you.

Best technology innovation / achievement

Earthmine

Like

Move Networks

Twine

Viewdle

 

Best bootstrapped start-up

FriendFeed

PoliticalBase

ProductWiki

Techmeme

UpNext

 

Best new gadget / device

iphone

Kindle

Ooma

Pleo

Wii

 

Best business model

Glam Media

Imeem

Prosper

Weatherbill

Zazzle

 

Best design

Etsy

Jackson Fish Market

Netvibes

Smugmug

Songza

 

Best enterprise start-up

37Signals

Attributor

EditGrid

Ribbit

Zoho

 

Best consumer start-up

1800FREE411

23andMe

LinkedIn

Meebo

Zillow

 

Best mobile start-up

AdMob

Fring

Loopt

Shozu

Twitter

 

Best international start-up

Atlassian

Gizmoz

MusicShake

Netvibes

OpenAds

 

Best user-generated content

Digg

Facebook

Geni

Instructables

Yelp

 

Best video site

Aniboom

Hulu

Joost

Justin.tv

Tokbox

 

Best clean tech start-up

A123 Systems

Ausra

Gridpoint

NanoSolar

Tesla Motors

 

Best use of viral marketing

Flixster

iLike

iminlikewithyou

RockYou

StumbleUpon

 

Best time sink site

College Humor

Duels

kdice

Kongregate

Pandora

 

Most likely to make the world a better place

Causes

DonorsChoose

Kiva

One laptop per child

ZeroFootprint

 

Most likely to succeed

Kayak

Mint

Slide

Wordpress

Zivity

 

Best start-up founder

Reid Hoffman

Max Levchin

Kevin Rose

Evan Williams

Mark Zuckerberg

 

Best start-up CEO

Gina Bianchini

Dick Costolo

Toni Schneider

Rob Solomon

Lance Takoda

 

Best new start-up of 2007

Hulu

iMedix

Joost

Ribbit

Tumblr



Best overall

Digg

Facebook

GrandCentral

Twitter

Zillow  


Thanks to the sponsors:  Adobe, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Microsoft, OurStage and Sun.

The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 at the Herbst
Theater - across the street from City Hall in San Francisco.

Now get voting! ;-)