Crunchies 2008 Award Winners

January 10th, 2009

We’d like to congratulate the winners of last night’s event. Here they are in order of presentation:

Best Application Or Service

Get Satisfaction
Google Reader (winner)
Minted
Meebo
MySpace Music (runner-up)
Yelp

Best Technology Innovation/Achievement

Facebook Connect (runner-up)
Google Friend Connect
Google Chrome
Windows Live Mesh (winner)
Swype
Yahoo BOSS

Best Design

Animoto (runner-up)
Cooliris (winner)
Friendfeed
Infectious
Lala
Sliderocket

Best Bootstrapped Startup

BackType
GitHub (winner)
Socialcast
StatSheet
12seconds.tv (runner-up)

Most Likely To Make The World A Better Place

Akoha
Causes
CO2Stats
GoodGuide (winner)
Kiva (runner-up)
Better Place

Best Enterprise Startup
Amazon Web Services (winner)
Force.com
Google App Engine (runner-up)
Yammer
Zoho

Best International Startup

eBuddy (winner)
Fotonauts
OpenX
Vente-privee
Wuala (runner-up)

Best Clean Tech Startup

Better Place (runner-up)
Boston Power
ElectraDrive
Laurus Energy
Project Frog (winner)

Best New Gadget/Device

Android G1 (runner-up)
Ausus EEE 1000 Series
Flip MinoHD
iPhone 3G (winner)
SlingCatcher

Best Time Sink Site/Application

Mob Wars
iBowl
Tap Tap Revenge (winner)
Zivity
Texas Hold Em (runner-up)

Best Mobile Startup

ChaCha (runner-up)
Evernote (winner)
Posterous
Qik Skyfire
Truphone

Best Mobile Application

Google Mobile Application (runner-up)
imeem mobile (winner)
Pandora Radio
rolando
ShopSavvy
Ocarina

Best Startup Founder

Linda Avery and Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)
Michael Birch and Xochi Birch (Bebo)
Robert Kalin (Etsy)
Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone (Twitter ) (winner)
Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, Bret Taylor (FriendFeed ) (runner-up)

Best Startup CEO

Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
Jason Kilar (Hulu) (runner-up)
Elon Musk (SpaceX)
Andy Rubin (Android)
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) (winner)

Best New Startup Of 2008
Dropbox (runner-up)
FriendFeed (winner)
GoodGuide
Tapulous
Topsin Media
Yammer

Best Overall Startup In 2008

Amazon Web Services
Facebook (winner)
Android
hulu
Twitter (runner-up)

31 Comments

Young says:

I am sure twitter will be the Best Ovarall in 2009.

Chris says:

Good to see Dropbox getting recognised!

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Tara Brown says:

Topspin is going to kick everyone’s ass in 2009!

onewhoknows says:

clearly, there are far too many people who have never actually met zuckerberg; those are votes for a familiar brand, nothing to do with the person.

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[...] nominated (we won for Best Design last year), but it still felt like we were winning – many of the winners use or integrate with us: Google Reader, Windows Live Mesh, Cooliris, lots of companies using [...]

linker says:

can the webmaster add links to the listed sites, or at least the winners so we can make a quick jump to check them out ourselves?

HOBBS says:

I have similar topic with your blog, do you get shit loads of spam? I hate those spam that clutter my blog!

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Digitalmalay says:

I bet google reader the best!They had plenty of great features.No wonder they won

记忆 says:

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IvyZ says:

How is Facebook the best startup of 2008? It was started in 2004!

otho says:

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Matthew C. Kriner says:

I think Twitter has potential. I think this blog is onto something.

Darren Crawford says:

As we wrap up 2009 I am looking forward to seeing what is on the list for this year.

I’d like to throw GIST in the mix – especially if you are in sales.
Twitter is a given I think.

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