Best of Year 2008
January 12, 2009 by Shanker Bakshi
Filed under Blogging Resource

So have you interacted with all mighty on 2008, Friday 9th January Crunchies awarded best startups and web services of year 2008. Winners were chosen by user voting since November 2008, and rewarded for their best efforts at Herbst Theater, San Francisco.
Below are the winners, mix this list it up your opinion if you hadn’t voted for the winners.
Best Application Or Service
Google Reader (winner)
MySpace Music (runner-up)
Best Technology Innovation/Achievement
Windows Live Mesh (winner)
Facebook Connect (runner-up)
Best Design
Cooliris (winner)
Animoto (runner-up)
Best Bootstrapped Startup
GitHub (winner)
12seconds.tv (runner-up)
Best Enterprise Startup
Amazon Web Services (winner)
Google App Engine (runner-up)
Best International Startup
eBuddy (winner)
Wuala (runner-up)
Best New Gadget/Device
iPhone 3G (winner)
Android G1 (runner-up)
Best Startup Founder
Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone (Twitter ) (winner)
Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, Bret Taylor (FriendFeed ) (runner-up)
Best Startup CEO
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) (winner)
Jason Kilar (Hulu) (runner-up)
Best Overall Startup In 2008
Facebook (winner)
Twitter (runner-up)
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Never heard of these awards
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Where these awards were held? Like “ZK@Internet Marketing Blog” I never heard of them.
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Shanker Bakshi Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
These were organized by TechCrunch Friday 9th January at Herbst Theater, San Francisco.
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This is news to me. It’s funny going around blogging how much I learn about new stuff.
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Hi Shanker,
Thanks for the reply, Thar“s why I like to comment in other blogs since I always found something new, like these awards.
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Those winners are deserving! Though some sites are new to me.
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Congratulation for the achivement
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