• Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes Best Overall For The Hat Trick

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    Friday, January 8th, 2010

    This year’s third annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those that weren’t watching, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below. Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees as well. It was an incredibly tight race for many of the categories, and it’s safe to say that everyone on this list is at the top of their field.

    We’d like to take a moment to point out Facebook’s win for “Best Overall Startup Or Product”, which marks the third year in a row that the company has taken home the top prize. Facebook continues to innovate and deploy features at an impressive rate while still showing incredible growth. Ours hats go off to you.

    If you’d like to watch the event for yourself, you can watch an archived version of the live stream here.

    Best Technology Achievement:
    Backblaze
    Bing (Microsoft)
    Chrome OS (Google) (Winner)
    Google Wave (Runner Up)
    PuSH
    Silverlight (Microsoft)

    Best Internet Application:
    Animoto
    Dropbox (Winner)
    Groupon
    MOG All Access
    Posterous
    Yelp (Runner Up)

    Best Social App:
    Aardvark
    Brizzly
    DailyBooth (Runner Up)
    Farmville(Winner)
    SocialVibe
    StockTwits

    Best Bootstrapped StartUp:
    atebits (Tweetie)
    Shoes of Prey
    Tinychat (Winner)
    Wildfire Interactive (Runner Up)
    wizehive
    Wufoo

    Best Mobile Application:
    foursquare (Winner)
    Google Voice
    Gowalla (Runner Up)
    Kindle for iPhone
    Skies of Glory
    Tonchidot

    Best International:
    Amiando
    Jolicloud
    Playfish (Runner Up)
    Spotify (Winner)
    TweetDeck
    vente-privee.com

    Best Time Sink Application:
    Canabalt
    Civilization Revolution (iPhone)
    DailyBooth (Winner)
    I Am T-Pain
    Pandora (Runner Up)
    Zoosk

    Best Design:
    Animoto (Winner)
    Brizzly
    Chrome (Google)
    Clicker
    Facebook Mobile (Runner Up)
    Threadsy

    Best Enterprise:
    Amazon Web Services
    Atlassian (Runner Up)
    Azure (Microsoft)
    Chatter (Salesforce)
    Google Docs/Office (Winner)
    Yext

    Best CleanTech:
    CalStar Products
    Locust Storage
    Picarro
    Sappphire Energy (Runner Up)
    Sun Run (Winner)
    Tendril

    Best New Gadget:
    Apple Magic Mouse (Runner Up)
    Barnes & Noble nook (Winner)
    litl webbookMotorola Droid
    Sonos S5
    Zune HD

    Best Tech PR:
    Brew Media Relations
    LaunchSquad
    OutCast Communications (Runner Up)
    PerkettPR
    Spark (Winner)
    SutherlandGold Group

    Best Angel:
    Betaworks
    Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital)
    Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC)
    Ron Conway (SV Angel) (Winner)
    Y-Combinator (Runner Up)
    Yossi Vardi

    Best VC Firm:
    Accel Partners (Winner)
    Charles River Ventures
    Benchmark Capital
    Greylock Partners (Runner Up)
    Sequoia Capital
    True Ventures
    Union Square Ventures

    Founder Of The Year:
    Aaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner)
    Elon Musk (Tesla)
    Jack Dorsey (Square)
    Jeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp) (Runner Up)
    John Borthwick (Betaworks)
    Omar Hamoui (AdMob)

    CEO Of The Year:
    Josh Silverman (Skype) (Runner Up)
    Marc Benioff (Salesforce)
    Mark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner)
    Neil Young (ngmoco)
    Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
    Tony Hsieh (Zappos)

    Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:
    Aardvark (Runner Up)
    Bing (Microsoft) (Winner)
    Foursquare
    Hunch
    Milo
    Spotify

    Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009:
    Android (Google)
    Facebook (Winner)
    LinkedIn
    ngmoco
    Twitter (Runner Up)
    Zynga

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