Nominate your rich Internet application for a Crunchie award

Nominations are now open for the Crunchies, a start-up competition being hosted by Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch, Venture Beat and GigaOm. The deadline to submit a nomination is December 12th, so you'll have about 10 days to submit cool startups that are building/leveraging RIAs. There are a number of topics and some of them are very conducive to an RIA entry:

• Best technology innovation/achievement - Recognition for best new technology achievement or breakthrough - Building something really awesome around RIAs?
• Best bootstrapped start-up - For a company that has raised less than $100.000 from individuals, angels or others - Because RIAs are so easy to build I know a lot of companies that could be in this category
• Best design - Recognition for best user-interface design - RIAs should kill this category, show off your great user experience
• Best enterprise start-up - For a start-up focused on enterprise or business-to-business applications and services - Building a really good enterprise RIA?
• Best consumer start-up - For a start-up focused on consumer-facing applications and services - A lot of RIAs are focusing on the consumer market, so there should be a ton of nominations here.
• Best video site - For sites who distribute video and/or other rich-media content - If you're using rich media, this is your category
• Best overall - For the best overall site or product of 2007 - I'm holding out hope that an RIA-based company wins this one

Should be a great competition and like I said, I think there are some strong companies out there using RIAs who could go toe-to-toe with the competition based on technology and experience. Can't wait to see the finalists, so make sure to nominate your company!