The document summarizes the winners of various categories in the 2010 Crunchies Awards presented by TechCrunch. It provides descriptions of the winning products and services in categories such as Best Internet Application (won by Rdio), Best Social App (won by Twitter), Best Mobile App (won by Instagram), and Best New Device (won by the iPad). It also recognizes achievements in areas like technology, design, and popular websites.
2. Crunchies Awards
By TechCrunch
Best Internet Application
Best Social App
Best Design
Best Social Commerce App Best Touch
Best Mobile App Interface
Best Location Based
Service Best Bootstrapped
Startup
Best New Device
Best Technology Best Enterprise
Achievement
3. Continued
Angel of the Year
VC of the year (individual)
Founder of the Year
CEO of the Year
Best New Startup or product of 2010
Best Overall Startup or Product of 2010
7. Best Internet Application
Rdio is a music subscription service
available in the United States and Canada.
Chartbeat
It is available as a website and also has
clients for the iPhone, Android, and
Greplin BlackBerry mobile devices, which can play
streaming music or cache songs for offline
Pandra playback. The web-based service also offers
a desktop client based on Adobe Air. Its
library has content from the four major
Rdio record labels, as well as the Merlin
Network and the aggregators IODA,
Ujam INgrooves, The Orchard, IRIS Distribution,
and Finetunes.[1][4] Rdio also offers
social networking, allowing users to share
11. Best Internet Application
Chartbeat
Pandora Radio is an automated
music recommendation service and
custodian of the Music Genome Project.
Greplin Users enter a song or artist
that they enjoy, and the service responds
Pandra by playing selections that
are musically similar. Users provide
feedback on approval or
Rdio
disapproval of individual songs, which
Pandora takes into account for
Ujam future selections.
16. Best Social App
DailyBooth is
a photoblogging website designed for users
Cityville
to take a photo of themselves every day
with a caption, in order to document and
Dailybooth share their life with others, thus the slogan
"your life in pictures." It is similar
Foursquare to social-networking websites such
as Twitter in that you can follow other
users and allow them to follow you in
Groupme
turn and get real-time updates on what
other people are doing. The user base is
Twitter geared towards teens.[2]
In August, 2009, the site was reported to
have over 3 million unique visitors a
20. Best Social App
Twitter is a website, owned and
operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a
Cityville
social networking and microblogging
service, enabling its users to send and read
Dailybooth messages called tweets. Tweets are text-
based posts of up to 140 characters
Foursquare displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets
are publicly visible by default; however,
senders can restrict message delivery to just
Groupme
their followers. Users may subscribe to other
users' tweets – this is known as following
Twitter and subscribers are known as followers or
tweeps.
22. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
23. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
24. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
25. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter shopkick is the first mobile app that
gives you rewards and offers simply for
LivingSocial walking into stores. You can collect
kickbucks and bonuses at nearly all places
One King Lanearound you.
Shop Kick
26. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
27. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
28. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
29. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day
Groupon website that is localized to major
geographic markets worldwide. Launched
Jetsetter in November 2008, the first market for
Groupon was Chicago, followed soon
thereafter by Boston, New York City, and
LivingSocial
Toronto. As of October 2010, Groupon
serves more than 150 markets in North
One King Lane America and 100 markets in Europe, Asia
and South America and has amassed 35
Shop Kick million registered users
30. Best Social commerce App
Blippy
Groupon
Jetsetter
LivingSocial
One King Lane
Shop Kick
34. Best Mobile App
Instagram is a simple App that allows its
Bump users to snap a photo (or choose an
existing one from their Albums), apply one
of 11 different filters or none at all, and
Chomp
quickly share it across the major social
networks including Facebook, Twitter,
Google Mobile
Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, and Foursquare.
for Android The part that makes everyone coming back
for more, however, is its own convenient
built in social network which provides a
Hashable
real time feed of photos from all the
friends and people you follow. You can
Instagram Like and Comment on anyone’s photos and
Follow your friends and others that
interest you. If Flickr and Twitter had a
38. Best Mobile App
Bump
Google has submitted a new version of its
Google Mobile App for the iPhone platform
Chomp
(iTunes link), and the fresh app now
finally boasts built-in support for Voice
Google Mobile
Search on iPod touch devices (2G or
for Android newer).
Update: we have 3 commenters saying there
Hashable
still is no Voice Search on their iPod touch
devices to be found, even after updating.
Instagram We’re looking into it.
40. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
41. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
42. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
43. Best Location Based Service
Facebook announced Places on August
Facebook
18, 2010. It is a feature that lets users
Places "check in" to Facebook using a mobile
device to let a user's friends know
Foursquare where they are at the moment.This
feature is already known from
Foursquare, a social network where
Gowalla users share their geolocation data via
mobile phones.
SimpleGeo
Uber
44. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
45. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
46. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
47. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla Foursquare is a location-based social
SimpleGeo
Uber
48. Best Location Based Service
Facebook
Places
Foursquare
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
52. Best New Device
Boxer Box
Kinect for Xbox 360, or simply Kinect
Google Chrome
(originally known by the code name
Notebook Project Natal),a "controller-free gaming
and entertainment experience" by
iPad Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game
platform. Based around a webcam-style
iPhone4 add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360
console, it enables users to control and
Kno interact with the Xbox 360 without the
need to touch a game controller,
Xbox Kinect
56. Best New Device
Boxer Box
Google Chrome
Notebook iPad is a tablet computer designed,
developed and marketed by Apple
iPad
primarily as a platform for audio-visual
media including books, periodicals,
iPhone4
movies, music, games, and web content. At
about 1.5 pounds (680 grams), its size and
Kno weight fall between those of contemporary
smartphones and laptop computers. Apple
Xbox Kinect released the iPad in April 2010, and sold
15 million of the devices in 9 months.
61. Best Technology Achievement
Blekko Qwiki is a multimedia website which
links a robotic reading of a text
Google Self- summary drawn from any chosen
driving Cars Wikipedia article with still and moving
images drawn from many sources
across the web. These attempt to
Hunch
contextually synchronise with the text as
it is read with the aim of producing
Palantir
anaudio-visual over-view of the
subject. It is backed by Facebook co-
Qwiki
Word Lens
65. Best Technology Achievement
Blekko
Google Self-
Google announced this weekend that it’s
driving Cars been building robotic cars that have been
driving themselves around California —
Hunch down curvy Lombard Street in San
Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge,
Palantir along the Pacific Coast Highway, around
Lake Tahoe and from Google’s Mountain
Qwiki View headquarters to Santa Monica (a 350-
mile trip). So far, the cars have logged
Word Lens over 140,000 miles.
70. Best Design
1000memories
about.me is a personal web hosting
about.me service co-founded by Ryan Freitas,
Tony Conrad and Tim Young in October
2009.[2] The site offers registered users
Airbnb
a simple platform from which to link
multiple online identities, relevant
Flipboard external sites, and popular social
networking websites such
Gogobot
Qwiki
74. Best Design
1000memories
The Best Travel Advice
about.me
Get connected with the best travel advice
from friends and people who travel like
Airbnb you!
Flipboard
Gogobot
Qwiki
78. Other Popular Web Sites
Quora Quora is an online knowledge market,
founded in June 2009, launched in
Linkedin made available to the public on June 21,
private beta in December 2009, and
2010. Quora aggregates questions and
answers to many topics and allows users
to collaborate on them.
81. Other Popular Web Sites
LinkedIn (pronounced /ˌlɪŋkt.ˈɪn/) is a
Quora business-oriented social networking site.
Founded in December 2002 and launched in
Linkedin May 2003,[3] it is mainly used for
professional networking. As of 22 March
2011, LinkedIn reports more than 100
million registered users, spanning more
than 200 countries and territories
worldwide. The site is available in English,
French, German, Italian, Portuguese and
Spanish. Quantcast reports Linkedin has 21.4
million monthly unique U.S. visitors and
47.6 million globally.
