Crunchies Winners Announced
Written by Josh Catone / January 18, 2008 7:30 PM
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While the Crunchies award ceremony is in full swing at the historic Herbst Theater in downtown San Francisco, we've got the winners for you right here. Over 100,000 votes were cast, and many of the races were very tight, but in the end there can be only one winner (per category). So without further ado, the winners of the first annual Crunchies Awards are...
Best technology innovation / achievement
Best bootstrapped start-up
Best new gadget / device
Best business model
Best design
Best enterprise start-up
Best consumer start-up
Best mobile start-up
Best international start-up
Best user-generated content
Best video site
Best clean tech start-up
Best use of viral marketing
Best time sink site
Most likely to make the world a better place
Most likely to succeed
Best start-up founder
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
Image via the Guardian
Best start-up CEO
Toni Schneider - Auttomatic
Image via True Ventures
Best new start-up of 2007
Best overall
You can catch the video of the event below:
The Crunchies is a joint venture between TechCrunch, GigaOm, VentureBeat, and ReadWriteWeb.
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You can watch the Crunchies and discuss them live here;
http://www.tangler.com/forum/technology-news/topic/33259
It's quite unfortunate that Twine didn't win.
So, time for a post-mortem since Twine SHOULD have won for "Best Technology Innovation/Achievement."
Did Twine lose because few people have had a chance to try it, or did Twine lose because Crunchies voters don't appreciate that the Semantic Web is nearly or just as important as the World Wide Web was circa 1990?
here is my color commentary:
http://www.centernetworks.com/crunchies-awards-live-notes
However important it is, people have been awaiting their invite code since OCTOBER 2007 and are still not getting any. Register again just tells you that your email is already in the system. And this too clever Register form just intimidate people. Take out those Organization/Title/WebSite whatever junk.
@ David
Yes, it is a pity for Twine. But as the previous commenter mentioned, be eager to be a tester but wait for long time and still not be able to watch inside is annoying. Though I personally vote for Twine, I totally understand why Twine gets loss. People would simply say, "where don't I vote for something I can see and test by myself than voting for a beautiful dream I am not allowed to touch?"
-- Yihong
I love that a company that uses a font that looks like MS Comic Sans for their logo wins "Best Design", lol!
Hehe, Facebook really deserves to win it
A big round of applause...Congratulations!
nhick
http://www.itrush.com
All winners were well deserving. Congratulations to them.
Thanks to Crunchies Organizers (Om Malik, Richard McManus, Matt Marshall, Michael Arrington) !!
@#4 (the person who replied to me): The invites will start coming soon. You should, in theory, have one by the end of March -- at the latest.
In the interim, play with EarthMind. EM is a semweb play, has cute graphics, too!! This is a compliment, not a disparaging comment. SDS (spatial-data sharing) and CVGE (collaborative virtual geographic environments) are hot topics; EarthMind may own them. Good for EM!! And kudos to them, as well.
Not a bad start...hopefully the awards will only get better! Thanks to everyone who reached out to http://www.stickychicken.com in regards to our upcoming launch on Wednesday, January 23.
Thanks -- speechless. Why don't they just annouce the thing in April. Don't repeat the Omnidrive story.