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    <published>2007-12-22T05:38:21Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-22T07:50:28Z</updated>
    <title>Finalists Announced for Crunchies Awards</title>
    <summary>The finalists have now been announced for the Crunchies, the awards show we&#8217;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...</summary>
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      <name>Richard MacManus</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p>The finalists have now been announced for <a href="http://crunchies.techcrunch.com/">the Crunchies</a>, the awards show we&#8217;re co-hosting with <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/">Techcrunch</a>, <a href="http://www.gigaom.com/">GigaOm</a> and <a href="http://www.venturebeat.com/">VentureBeat</a>. Voting will be live through to midnight PST Thursday, January 10. You can <a href="http://vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com/">vote here</a>, once a day.</p>

<p>There are bound to be startups disappointed not to have made the cut - and indeed a few of my own favorites didn&#8217;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&#8217;re a finalist, you may want to add a <a href="http://crunchies.techcrunch.com/badges/">badge</a> to your site to encourage people to vote for you.</p>
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      <![CDATA[<p><b>Best technology innovation / achievement<br /></b><br />Earthmine<br /><br />Like<br /><br />Move Networks<br /><br />Twine<br /><br />Viewdle<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best bootstrapped start-up<br /></b><br />FriendFeed<br /><br />PoliticalBase<br /><br />ProductWiki<br /><br />Techmeme<br /><br />UpNext<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best new gadget / device</b><br /><br />iphone<br /><br />Kindle<br /><br />Ooma<br /><br />Pleo<br /><br />Wii<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best business model</b><br /><br />Glam Media<br /><br />Imeem<br /><br />Prosper<br /><br />Weatherbill<br /><br />Zazzle<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best design<br /></b><br />Etsy<br /><br />Jackson Fish Market<br /><br />Netvibes<br /><br />Smugmug<br /><br />Songza<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best enterprise start-up<br /></b><br />37Signals<br /><br />Attributor<br /><br />EditGrid<br /><br />Ribbit<br /><br />Zoho<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best consumer start-up<br /></b><br />1800FREE411<br /><br />23andMe<br /><br />LinkedIn<br /><br />Meebo<br /><br />Zillow<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best mobile start-up<br /></b><br />AdMob<br /><br />Fring<br /><br />Loopt<br /><br />Shozu<br /><br />Twitter<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best international start-up<br /></b><br />Atlassian<br /><br />Gizmoz<br /><br />MusicShake<br /><br />Netvibes<br /><br />OpenAds<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best user-generated content<br /></b><br />Digg<br /><br />Facebook<br /><br />Geni<br /><br />Instructables<br /><br />Yelp<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best video site<br /></b><br />Aniboom<br /><br />Hulu<br /><br />Joost<br /><br />Justin.tv<br /><br />Tokbox<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best clean tech start-up<br /></b><br />A123 Systems<br /><br />Ausra<br /><br />Gridpoint<br /><br />NanoSolar<br /><br />Tesla Motors<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best use of viral marketing<br /></b><br />Flixster<br /><br />iLike<br /><br />iminlikewithyou<br /><br />RockYou<br /><br />StumbleUpon<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best time sink site<br /></b><br />College Humor<br /><br />Duels<br /><br />kdice<br /><br />Kongregate<br /><br />Pandora<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Most likely to make the world a better place<br /></b><br />Causes<br /><br />DonorsChoose<br /><br />Kiva<br /><br />One laptop per child<br /><br />ZeroFootprint<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Most likely to succeed<br /></b><br />Kayak<br /><br />Mint<br /><br />Slide<br /><br />Wordpress<br /><br />Zivity<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best start-up founder<br /></b><br />Reid Hoffman<br /><br />Max Levchin<br /><br />Kevin Rose<br /><br />Evan Williams<br /><br />Mark Zuckerberg<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best start-up CEO<br /></b><br />Gina Bianchini<br /><br />Dick Costolo<br /><br />Toni Schneider<br /><br />Rob Solomon<br /><br />Lance Takoda<br /><br />&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Best new start-up of 2007<br /></b><br />Hulu<br /><br />iMedix<br /><br />Joost<br /><br />Ribbit<br /><br />Tumblr<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Best overall<br /></b><br />Digg<br /><br />Facebook<br /><br />GrandCentral<br /><br />Twitter<br /><br />Zillow &nbsp;<br /><br /><br />Thanks to the sponsors:&nbsp; Adobe, Charles River Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Microsoft, OurStage and Sun.<br /><br />The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 at the Herbst
Theater - across the street from City Hall in San Francisco.<br /><br />Now <a href="http://vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com/">get voting</a>! ;-)</p>
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    <id>tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2007://1.5328-comment:43584</id>
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    <title>Comment from Jeff Crites on 2007-12-21</title>
    <author>
        <name>Jeff Crites</name>
        <uri>http://www.fellowforce.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Congrats to all on the list.  Good luck!</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-22T00:58:08Z</published>
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    <id>tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2007://1.5328-comment:43588</id>
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    <title>Comment from Jason on 2007-12-21</title>
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        <name>Jason</name>
        <uri>http://www.vyrotek.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Can I make a suggestion? <br />
Make all those company names point to their URL?</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-22T01:38:11Z</published>
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    <id>tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2007://1.5328-comment:43598</id>
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    <title>Comment from listen_to_blogs on 2007-12-21</title>
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        <name>listen_to_blogs</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I am surprised justin.tv made it to the top 5. What desperate , attention grabbing act did their founder do this time;)</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-22T06:36:38Z</published>
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    <id>tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2007://1.5328-comment:43602</id>
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    <title>Comment from dave mcclure on 2007-12-21</title>
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        <name>dave mcclure</name>
        <uri>http://500hats.typepad.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>re: best startup CEO, i believe it's Lance "Tokuda" </p>

<p>also, probably not fair to include Zuck & Reid in "startup founder" category... neither of them likely to ever found another startup again (altho they'll invest in another fifty easily).  Ev & Max are on their 2nd, and i'd expect them both to do it again.  Kevin likely as well, altho already doing two at the same time & probably ready for a 3rd.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-22T07:53:04Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from the constant skeptic on 2007-12-22</title>
    <author>
        <name>the constant skeptic</name>
        <uri>http://www.constantskeptic.com/</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>please make each linkable... i have not had a chance to check out a lot of these and I would like to.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-22T13:44:39Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Ryan Mickle on 2007-12-26</title>
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        <name>Ryan Mickle</name>
        <uri>http://blog.ryanmickle.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>For all those looking for the links, just go to <a href="http://vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com/" rel="nofollow">vote.crunchies.techcrunch.com</a>, where you will find links and the opportunity to vote. </p>]]>
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    <published>2007-12-26T20:05:50Z</published>
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