Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch gives you the inside scoop on last week's Crunchies awards

What the heck is the Crunchies? The event is TechCrunch's first annual competition and award ceremony for the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. It is also a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.

With the media buying power to spend over $1.3 billion on eight acquisitions and two equity deals at her previous gig at Fox Interactive Media, Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch sits down with us on this week's show. Learn how the nominees where selected for the Crunchies and hear her predictions on possible Web 2.0 exits in 2008. Will Digg, Twitter, or Technorati be sold this year?

What is the future of blogs? Harde passionately responds, "Blogs will be an important media channel... the type of aggressive journalism that blogs do... combined with the type of community that is able to be created... really creates a two-way dialog."

Hitlines:

1- Ebay's CEO Meg Whitman announces her retirement:

With more than ten years at eBay under her belt, Whitman has finally called it quits. The news is seen as a positive in some quarters, especially those who believe that Whitman has let one of the biggest web brands drift. Overpaying for Skype and other strategic bungles (China, for instance) have tarnished what for the first six years was a blemish-less tenure for Whitman. Of course, one can't blame her for leaving - she's worth $1.4 billion.

2 - Yahoo! plans to layoff hundreds?

Over the years, Yahoo! seems to be losing focus. The company has over 3.4 billion page views per day, however, the company has yet to come out with any new products or "wow" acquisitions since flickr. We'll have to keep an eye on that story and see what trouble further looms ahead.

 

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