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Pinterest, Dropbox, Google+ and Twitter win Crunchies Awards
Social networks Pinterest, Google+ and Twitter were among the big winners of this year’s Crunchies Awards announced Tuesday.
Social networks Pinterest, Google+ and Twitter were among the big winners of this year’s Crunchies Awards announced Tuesday.
The annual awards show is hosted by influential technology blogs TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venturebeat and rewards the most compelling startups, internet innovations and technology products of the year.
File hosting startup Dropbox was awarded the coveted award for “Best Overall Startup,” while Apple’s intelligent voice recognition service Siri beat the innovative light field camera Lytro in the category of “Best Technology Achievement.”
The Nest smartphone-controlled thermostat was deemed the “Best New Device” in a category that included the Galaxy Nexus, the iPad 2, the iPhone 4S and the Kindle Fire.
Note-taking app Evernote won the award for “Best Mobile Application” and Google’s social network Google+ picked up the award for “Best Social Application.”
You can view the entire awards ceremony on TechCrunch’s Crunchies live feed:
http://techcrunch.com/events/crunchies-2011/video/
The full list of Crunchies Awards winners and runners up:
Best Technology Achievement
Siri (Winner)
Lytro (Runner Up)
Best Social Application
Google+ (Winner)
Instagram (Runner Up)
Best Shopping Application
Evernote (Winner)
Flipboard (Runner Up)
Best Location Application
Grindr (Winner)
RunKeeper (Runner Up)
Best Tablet Application
Fotopedia (Winner)
Netflix (Runner Up)
Best Design
Path 2.0 (Winner)
Pinterest (Runner Up)
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Imgur (Winner)
Github (Runner Up)
Best Cloud Service
Dropbox (Winner)
Box (Runner Up)
Best International Startup
Peixe Urbano (Winner)
Klarna (Runner Up)
Best Clean Tech Startup
EcoATM (Winner)
Array Power (Runner Up)
Best New Device
Nest (Winner)
Kindle Fire (Runner Up)
Best Time Sink
Words With Friends (Winner)
Skyrim (Runner Up)
Biggest Social Impact
Twitter (Winner)
Charity: Water (Runner Up)
Angel of the Year
Reid Hoffman (Winner)
Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (Runner Up)
VC of the Year
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (Winner)
Matt Cohler (Runner Up)
Founder of the Year
Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter) (Winner)
Drew Houston (Dropbox) (Runner Up)
CEO of the Year
Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn) (Winner)
Daniel Ek (Spotify) (Runner Up)
Best New Startup of 2011
Pinterest (Winner)
Codecademy (Runner Up)
Best Overall Startup of 2011
Dropbox (Winner)
Square (Runner Up)
