Last week we got a call from our friends at Techcrunch asking if we could help them out by shooting the Crunchies 2007 awards show that took place on Friday, January 18th.
We were more than happy to attend the show, put our camera in the middle of the back row, and plug into the sound board.
The Crunchies 2007 is a collaboration between GigaOM, VentureBeat, Read/WriteWeb, and Techcrunch with awards given in 20 categories:
Best time sink site: Kongregate
Best use of viral marketing: StumbleUpon
Most likely to succeed: Automattic (WordPress)
Best new startup: iMedix
Best Startup CEO: Toni Schneider (Automattic)
Best Startup Founder: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme
Best business model: Zazzle
Best new gadget/ device: Apple iPhone
Best design: SmugMug
Best enterprise startup: Zoho
Best consumer startup: Meebo
Best International startup: Netvibes
Best mobile start-up: Twitter
Best user-generated content site: Digg
Best video startup: Hulu
Best Clean Tech Startup: Tesla Motors
Best technology innovation / achievement: Earthmine
Best Overall: Facebook
We taped the entire show, including some pretty good performances from The Richter Scales and you can watch it here:
Stick around for this week’s episode of The GigaOM Show (Thursday, January 24th at 7pm EST) where we will provide a recap of the Crunchies 2007 with Techcrunch CEO Heather Harde.
- David Prager
(Photos courtesy of Chanaye Lewis, sponsored by Zivity.
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