Nominate your favorite companies, products and people for one of our Crunchie award categories below. Each person is invited to submit one nomination per category per day through December 4th 2009 at Midnight PST. Once you nominate a company in a category, you are able to share your nominations through Twitter and Facebook, or you can embed a badge or link to the nomination.

For past winners, see the page for 2007 and for 2008.

Best Internet Application

To recognize the best website or web-based application
2008: Google Reader, MySpace Music (runner up)
2007: Meebo

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Best Social Network App

To recognize the best application on a social network platform
2009 new category

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Best Mobile Application

To recognize the best startup mobile application
2008: imeem mobile (best app) and evernote (mobile startup), google mobile (app runner up) and chacha (mobile startup)
2007: Twitter

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Best Technology Achievement

To recognize the most significant technology innovation of 2009
2008: Windows Live Mesh, Facebook Connect (runner up)
2007: Earthmine

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Best Design

To recognize the best web or mobile user-interface or product design
2008: Cooliris, Animoto (runner up)
2007: SmugMug

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Best Bootstrapped StartUp

To recognize a startup’s impact that has raised less than $100k (from individuals, angels or other sources)
2008: Github, 12seconds.tv (runner up)
2007: Techmeme

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Best Enterprise StartUp

To recognize the best business-to-business focused startup
2008: Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine (runner up)
2007: Zoho

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Best International StartUp

To recognize the best startup achievement outside of the United States (company must be founded, headquartered and operated primarily outside the US)
2008: ebuddy, Wuala (runner up)
2007: netvibes

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Best CleanTech StartUp

To recognize the most significant new environmentally conscious technology applications
2008: Project Frog, Better Place (runner up)
2007: Tesla Motors

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Best New Gadget

To recognize the best new Internet-accessible electronics device introduced during the year
2008: iphone 3G, Android G1 (runner up)
2007: iphone

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Best Time Sink Application

To recognize a favorite application when you\'re not working or wanting to think about work
2008: Tap Tap Revenge, Texas Hold Em (runner up)
2007: Kongregate

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Best VC Firm

To recognize the most significant impact by a venture firm (investing on behalf of or with limited partners) in 2009.

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Best Angel

To recognize the most significant impact by an angel (individual) investor in 2009

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Best Tech PR

To recognize the most significant impact by a PR firm in 2009.

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Founder Of The Year

To recognize an exemplary startup founder or founding team for outstanding accomplishments in 2009
2008: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams from Twitter; Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, Bret Taylor for FriendFeed (runner up)
2007: Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook

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CEO Of The Year

To recognize an exemplary startup CEO for outstanding leadership in 2009
2008: Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, Jason Kilar from Hulu
2007: Toni Schneider from Automattic/Wordpress

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Best New StartUp Of 2009

To recognize the best new startup that launched to the public in 2009
2008: Friendfeed, Dropbox (runner up)
2007: iMedix

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Best Overall StartUp Of 2009

To recognize the best startup for its overall accomplishments in 2009
2008: Facebook, Twitter (runner up)
2007: Facebook

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