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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...

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.