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    Saturday, January 10th, 2009

    The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are below. We’ll have follow up coverage and a video of the new Richter Scales song that was performed live later tonight or tomorrow.

    Last year’s winners are here. This year’s nominees, runners up and winners:

    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)
    Asus EEE 1000 Series
    Flip MinoHD
    iPhone 3G (winner)
    SlingCatcher

    Best Time Sink Site/Application

    Mob Wars
    iBowl
    Tap Tap Range (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)

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