The Crunchies Awards - Nominations Open
Nominations are now open for the first annual Crunchies, the competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch. It promises to be a great show!
What I like about the Crunchies is that it's all about startups and innovation. We're aiming to recognize things that are important to startups - web innovation, best bootstrapping, best use of viral marketing, and so on. There are also product type categories - e.g. mobile, video.
So how can you participate?
1) Nominate your favorites
Starting today through Wednesday, December 12 at midnight pst, nominate the companies and products you believe most deserve industry recognition for achievements made in 2007.
2) Vote on finalists
The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalist companies for each award category based on the nominations submitted by the community. Voting will start Monday, December 13 and will be open for approximately one month (just give us enough time to engrave the awards).
3) Join the ceremony!
The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 at the Herbst Theater across the street from City Hall in San Francisco. It's an elegant, old world theater with 900 seats that will help give the awards the air of importance we believe they deserve. Seating will be reserved for finalist companies and event sponsors. A limited number of tickets will be available for press and the general public. Stay tuned for more details on the evening festivities.
So start nominating the startups you think deserve recognition; and feel free to use the comments of this post to shout them out - or promote yourself even, but you may want to give some reasons ;-) You can also grab a badge from here to promote the event.
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What if you could tell your DVR: "I like ACC Basketball, SEC Football, the Yankees, and the Red Wings. I want you to start recording whenever something exciting happens with any of those teams. Go."
I'm unabashedly biased, but areyouwatchingthis.com is the most compelling sports startup out there, that isn't just preaching to the Web 2.0 choir.
Only suckas and jive turkeys depend on SportsCenter for exciting game highlights.
Grooveshark (www.grooveshark.com) - Social Music Site with a unique compensation model that rewards users for sharing music. It also has a decent recommendation engine and free, full streaming.
DoMyStuff (www.domystuff.com) - DoMyStuff is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chores.
http://OnMyCity.com is a unique platform that provides websites with social networking and cms features. We are giving away accounts for business, organizations and personal.
ZOHO.COM - Complete suite of functional office and productivity applications.
They exemplify the best of Web 2.0 development in and open and communicative process.
They advertise on your site ... can I still nominate them?
Nominate www.wishdone.com
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Enter contests to win prizes you and your wish profile dream of
Express yourself easily through advanced blogging platforms.
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Interact in groups with people around the globe that share the same aspirations and dreams as you.
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Because WishDone is beyond freedom, communication and community…
And the Wishdone community has this request: believe in your imagination and believe in yourself
Get a myth in wishdone…
I nominate http://geni.com/. It is an amazing tool that my family uses to connect.
Seesmic (www.seesmic.com) A social network video integration tool. Referred to as a video twitter.
You can't call them the Crunchies. They're rather nice chocolate bars - chocolate around a honeycomb center - so the name is just funny and out of place ;)
Well, since I'm a Twitter and Youtube addict, i'd nominate Seesmic (www.seesmic.com, currently in developpment), a video-based Twitter who allow people to post their thoughts in video, follow other users, set up groups, etc. Social networking : Yay !
http://Seesmic.com
Twitter with a VIDEO twist... You're lucky if you can get a beta account ...
I cast my vote for http://seesmic.com
Twitter with a twist ... you 're lucky if you can get a beta account ... HOT HOT HOT!
Rachel, I know! Crunchies used to be one of my favorite chocolate bars (until I got diabetes and now I don't eat them) :-)
I would Nominate Seesmic also, but I have yet to try it since they haven't let me be an alpha adopter. LoL
All the vids and the feedback from there users has been steller.
ThemBid.com - We connect people who need products and services with those that provide them with an easy interface. Now, we offer a white label so publishers can create their own niched communities. To this effect, we have partnered up with a major publisher for distribution.
All on a shoestring.
Bighow.com is the web's first all-in-one Community Publishing Platform. Created by a two-man band, soft-launched a month ago.
First, I want to thank Read/Write Web for helping to put this together. It means a lot to us at http://www.20dc.com and probably to a lot of these other startups. If anyone would like to put in a nomination for us, we would definitely enjoy having on in the "Bootstrapped" category as well as the "Likely to make the world better" category.
Thanks again Read/Write Web!
Erepublik "the new world"
Now in invitaion only beta. Its the new new thing:
A 2D browser based strategic version of the real world. One where you can rewrite history and where you can achieve your hidden career ambitions be it in the political, economical, media or military field, have fun with your friends and shape the destiny of your country or the world.
www.erepublik.com
They way I read it you can pick more than one, here are my favs in no particular order:
Vimeo - HD Video, Killer community, no brainer
Tumblr - The best tool for the entire spectrum of blogging.
Seesmic - I think this is the site that will break peoples inhibitions regarding video.
----Here are my Honorable Mentions-----
Twitter/Facebook: Both were the standard 07 Darlings and can't be ignored.
Wallstrip - legitimized an entire form of new media company.
Nominate - www.vois.com
Kiva.org - smart, positive, transparent
Tourfilter - easy and useful, it actually does something for me
www.bepacked.com is a very cool travel tracking application for backpackers. You can place points on a map that plot out were you have been or where you are going, upload photos, add diary entries and it will real-time compile a complete interactive 'travelogue' for you friends and the world to see.
Nominate - http://www.keotag.com - A great buzz monitoring tool
Nominate Bunchball--(www.bunchball.com)
We make the ball bounce! We also make sites more addictive with a powerful incentive system built on popular game mechanics.
Really like http://www.tvtrip.com/ and http://www.seesmic.com/
'Nominate them!
I recommend http://www.geni.com.
I just love geni..
Simple yet very very powerful..
It’s a little ahead of my business plan, but after a couple of days and nights of contemplation I decided that entrepreneurship and innovation is all about calculated risk and timing. I’m all in. www.gzyn.com
For folks that simply want to focus on writing good stuff and make some money while at it, GZYN is the place to be. Everything else is taken care of by the system.
Thanks for putting this together.
www.zcubes.com
ZCubesTM is the world's first website where you can seamlessly browse, calculate, create, edit, draw, hand-write, watch, listen, paint, publish, search, type, print, network, teach, learn, love, and work.
Nominate: www.scrapblog.com
I think we are all a little outraged to hear what out local video game store wants to give us as credit for our used games.
I would urge everyone to nominate "MyZwap.com" for best new business model. Its the first and only Guranteed Direct Game Trade Service. New and Innovative but best of all it gives Gamers a fast and fair commercial alternative to trading used games. MyZwap's Patent Pending aproach to generating fair trades will change the market. Check it out at MyZwap.com I am sure you will agree.
I second the "Best Business Model" nomination for http://www.MyZwap.com
Video Game Trades completed in seconds without having to go to the post office!
Please nominate viibee.com in the design category
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http://viibee.com, online dating is fun again
respect..