The Crunchies By TechCrunch - Livestream Live Blog
The 2011 Crunches are underway, and it starting with a great piano solo by someone no one knows the name of. Whatever his hame, and you can see him on livestream, he's good. Jmmin.
The hosts are Sara Lacy and Paul Carr. Great for Sara. But I'm not going to any place she tells me to go to. (Just kidding.)
The Awards. Best Technology Achievement: Google Self-Driving Car. Runner-up: Quickie. Sara Lacy said the last year's runner up was Google Wave, so who wants to be that? Ha.
Next: Best Internet Application Award: Pandora wins the award (!) Rdio is the runner-up. Owen Thomas of VentureBeat is pissed. He yells "WRONG!" I said "RIGHT!"
Best Social Application: Presented by Google VP Marissa Mayer. (It's obvious she's been working out the abs by the way.) The winner: Dailybooth. Twitter is the runner-up. (No Foursquare? Shocking.)
Best Social Commerce Application. Presented by Chris Sacca, who's bashed Blippy for being actually founded by Indian labor, who are over-used and under-recognized. The winner is Groupon and the runner-up is ShopKick.
Best Booststrapped Startup:: Addmired Runner-up was Instapaper.
Best Enterprise App: Of the nominees here, I'm rooting for BuddyMedia, but let's see what happens. The Runner-up is Millienial Media, and the winner is BuddyMedia (I got it right.) But the applause was almost nil.
Best Clean Tech: ( I think the presenter Matt Marshall of Venture Beat may have had too much wine, but..) The runner-up is Kopenik and the winner is SolarCity.
Best Time Sink Application: Runner-up is Angry Birds and the winner is CityVille.
Bad joke about MySpace by Sara, using a poster (redone) from Weekend At Bernies to say it was being supported by friends (Weekend at Bernies was about a person, Bernie who was dead that two young men tried to make others think he was alive.)
Best International: Viki (well deserved). Runner-up: Soluto.
Best Design: Runner-up: About.me. Gogobot is the winner.
Best Device: Runner-up: X-Box Connect. Winner: iPad
Sara says we're in the home stretch - 20 down. And she takes time to tell us how the next category has nothing to do with Julian Assange. Now...
Best Touch Interface: Winner: Flipboard Runner-up? Matt Marshall says he thinks it was Instagram.
Best Mobile Application: Winner: Google Mobile Maps.
Angel of The Year: Runner-up: Ron Conway. Paul Graham is the winner.
VC of The Year: (Hopefully it's Fred Wilson, but let's see.) Runner-up is Fred Wilson. Yuri Milner of DST is the winner.
Founder Of The Year: Runner-up: Dennis Crowley. Winner: Mark Pincus of Zynga.
CEO of The Year: Runner-up: Mark Zuckerberg. Winner is Andrew Mason of Groupon. Andrew Mason is just a hoot. He says he has no idea why he's got the award and it's good because it comes before he "can fuck this up."
Best New Startup Or Product Of 2010: Runner-up: Square. Winner: Quora!
The founders of Flipboard and Instagram live together as roommates, by the way.
Best Overall Startup Or Product: Runner-up: Groupon Winner: Twitter. Wow. Facebook didn't win this year.
And it's over! The 2010 Crunchies are history. Now on to the party!