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The Crunchies 2009
The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother.
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The Oscars of Tech. That's how I explain it to my mother.
7:23 p.m. Arrived just a little late, but got great seats.
Sitting next to MC Hammer:
7:42 p.m. Om Malik announces best application of service to Google Reader. Marissa Mayer accepts the Crunchie.
7:45 p.m. Steve Gillmor announces the best technology innovation or achievement. Live Mesh carries it home.
GoodGuide wins Most Likely To Make The World a Better Place:
Amazon Web Services wins best enterprise app.
8:08 p.m. Ritchter Scales perform
8:12 p.m. Paul Graham from Y Combinator speaks with Eric from TechCrunch:
8:18 p.m. e-buddy wins the best international product. It's like a meebo.
Project Frog wins best Clean Tech.
Marissa Mayer speaks for a moment.
Then the mobile phone orchestra (video coming soon):
8:40 p.m. Om Malik grabs the wrong envelope so I have 10 extra seconds to write this paragraph. Evernote wins best mobile startup.
Lots of press in attendance tonight, include Adam Jackson and Scott Beale:
imeem mobile wins best mobile app.
8:42 p.m. Jason Calacanis speaks:
Ray Ozzie comes back to speak to Om Malik:
TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde thanks all of the sponsors. Mayfield Fund, MySpace Music, Charles River Ventures, Microsoft BizSpark, and Founders Fund to name a few.
She explains about the after party at City Hall. I will post some pictures from that later.
8:57 p.m. Best Startup Founder goes to Twitter, of course :)
Zuck wins best CEO:
FriendFeed wins best startup:
And Facebook takes best overall. Think about it though. How often do you login?
Here are all the nominees. I will post some of their links and party photos later:
Best Application of Service
-GetSatisfaction
-Google Reader *
-Meebo
-MySpace Music
-Minted
-Yelp
Best Technology Innovation/Achievement
-Facebook Connect
-Google Friend Connect
-Swype
-Yahoo! BOSS
-Google Chrome
-Microsoft Live Mesh *
Best Design
-Animoto
-Lala.com
-Friendfeed
-Cooliris **
-Infectious
-Sliderocket
Marshall: The best startups survive the downturn.
Malik: We've been here before. But we've seen tougher times.
Best Bootstrap Startup
-12seconds.tv
-github **
-socialcast
-backtype
-statsheet.com
Most Likely To Make The World a Better Place
-Better Place
-Akoha
-CO2stats
-Kiva **
-GoodGuide
-Causes (Facebook App)
Best Enterprise
-Zoho
-Yammer
-Google App Engine (runner up)
-Amazon Web Services **
-Salesforce
Best International
-ebuddy **
-fotonauts
-openx
-wuala
-event-privee.com
Best Clean Tech
-Better Place
-Project Frog **
-Boston Power
-ElectraDrive
-Laurus Energy
Marissa Mayer: Talks about Google Query Stream.
There are more text messages sent in Nairobi than New York City. You can learn a lot about people if you study how people use technology.
Q: How do you think Google is doing on the social web?
I'm really excited about Search Wiki. People can collaborate with a community of people who do the same search. Blogger, YouTube, and other products promise content creation.
Best Time Sink
-Zivity
-SGN
-Tapulous **
-Mob Wars
-Zyng
Best Mobile Startup
-ChaCha
-Qik
-Skyfire
-Evernote **
-Posterous
-Truphone
Best Mobile App
-Google
-imeem
-smule
-Pandora **
-Rolando
-Big in Japan
Best Startup Founder
-23andMe
-Bebo
-Twitter **
-FriendFeed
-Etsy
Best Startup CEO
-hulu
-zappos.com
-Space X
-Android
-Facebook **
Best New Startup of 2008
-GoodGuide
-Yammer
-TopSpin
-DropBox
-FriendFeed **
-Tapulous
Best Overall
-Amazon Web Services
-Hulu
-Facebook **
-Twitter
-Android
Here are all my photos from Flickr »
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"When we are in an environment with technological and environmental change, you have to focus on these new huge constraints, but also new opportunities for destruction or rebirth." -Ray Ozzie, Microsoft8:00 p.m. Github wins best bootstrapped startup.
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