The nominations period for the 2008 Crunchies has ended, with nearly 170,000 nominations rolling in over the past few weeks.
Check back here Monday morning, December 15th, for the announcing of selected nominees, as well as a chance to vote for them.
And if you’d like to help make this year’s Crunchies, sponsors of all shapes and sizes appreciated. Please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde if want to participate in the awards ceremony or reception to follow.
Nominate the companies and products you believe most deserve industry recognition for achievements made in the past year, 2008 from now through midnight, PST Wednesday, December 10. If you are a site, grab a badge to encourage your community to nominate you for a Crunchie.
The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalist companies for each award category. Finalist voting will run Monday, December 15 through Wednesday, January 7 midnight PST.
The Awards Ceremony will take place at 7:30 pm, Friday, January 9 at the Herbst Theater 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. General admission tickets will be released in December.
The reception will follow from 9 pm – midnight across the street in City Hall’s Rotunda. After-party co-host MySpace will be supplying a celebrity DJ. There will be an open bar, finger food, game room, and other fun surprises.
The 2008 Crunchies is our second annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. The Crunchies is co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. Best of all, the internet community is invited to choose who wins.
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14 Comments
Oliver Bayes-Shelton says:
December 11th, 2008 at 7:24 am
I hope Next2Friends gets into the next round.
Héctor Lino Rivera says:
December 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Una empresa que ayuda a hacer de este un mundo mejor… (A company that helps make this a better world …). GRACIAS.
Klaus says:
December 13th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Very good
SocialMind says:
December 13th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
jp says:
December 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Im ready to start voting!
em says:
December 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“Check back here Monday morning, December 15th, for the announcing of selected nominees, as well as a chance to vote for them”
What happened to Monday morning?
snowman says:
December 15th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
170,000 votes? wow!
I imagine some auditing is in progress.
Eli says:
December 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
170,000 votes and yet you forget to post the finalists? Everything ok over there?
Vijay says:
December 15th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Friends this is a very hectic process of selecting the finalists. Specially when the nominations are so many. Its better they take their own time and get the right ones on the final lists.
Chris H says:
December 29th, 2008 at 1:24 am
What a sham, and now techcrunch is censoring comments, over 40 embarrassing comments deleted!
Mike says:
December 29th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
WTF - They removed 40+ comments on the next 2 posts & turned off comments on them…
McMurphy says:
December 30th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Censorship at its finest.
Jalapeno Bootyhole says:
December 30th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Even though we at Forumwarz didn’t earn a coveted 2008 Crunchies Time Sink nomination despite our extensive user campaign, we wanted to thank you for holding this prestigious contest and giving us all a chance at internet glory.
Please don’t be discouraged by the negative comments you’ve been receiving as of late. It’s very easy to criticize, but much harder to pull something like this off.
We support TechCrunch’s decision to forge ahead in the face of adversity. In fact, as a gesture of solidarity, blog.forumwarz.com will begin deleting 10 random comments each day until the contest ends.
Stay the course!
Max says:
December 31st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I nominate techcrunch for the 2009 Squishies award!
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