Announcing The 2011 Crunchies Finalists And Tickets On Sale Now

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The nominations have been tabulated and the votes are in. Over 300,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce the finalists for 2011′s best in technology. Voting begins now.

For 2011, we've added some new categories. Best Location App, Best Cloud Services and Biggest Social Impact join the Crunchies ranks this year. You'll also find Best Social App, the NYC-dominated category of Best Shopping App, Best New Startup and the year's best VC's and Angel Investors. Newcomers like TaskRabbit's Leah Busque and Keith Rabois for his angel investments (Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yammer, Path, YouTube) made the list of finalists, as well as industry favorites such as Marc Andreessen, Jack Dorsey, Mark Pincus and Ron Conway.

There are some pretty good match-ups this year. Google+ is up against Facebook Timeline for Best Social App, along with the New New Twitter, Instagram, and Path 2.0). The Kindle Fire is competing with the iPad 2 for Best New Device. And Pinterest, Turntable.fm, Nest, Fab, and Codecademy are all vying for Best New Startup (even though two of those were complete pivots). LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is up for Angel of the Year. His seed investment in Zynga is worth 160 times what he paid for it. But AngelList founders Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi are also finalists in the category for helping to democratize angel investing, along with Conway, Rabois, Y Combinator's Paul Graham, and Kevin Rose (who has a killer portfolio that includes Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga, and Square). Who will win?

Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote. The rules state that you may vote once per day, per award category, until voting closes on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 11:59pm PST. There are 20 award categories open for voting, recognizing the top accomplishments across a variety of fields and roles. If you are one of the finalists, create a badge and get your community excited about this honor and get them to vote for you. Winners will be announced on January 31, live at the Crunchies.

In addition to today's announcement of the Finalists, we are happy to release our next batch of tickets through Eventbrite. The release begins now, so act fast and get them while you can.

Here are your Finalists:

Best Technology Achievement (2010 winner: Google Self Driving Cars)

Lytro

NFC

OnLive

Siri

Tesla Flat Pack Battery

Best Social Application (2010 winner: DailyBooth)

Facebook Timeline

Instagram

Google+

The New New Twitter

Path 2.0

Best Shopping Application (2010 winner: Groupon)

Birchbox

Fab

Gilt Groupe

Lot18

Warby Parker

Best Mobile Application (2010 winner: Google Mobile Maps for Android)

Evernote

Flipboard

Pandora

Spotify

Square

TaskRabbit

Best Location Application (New category for 2011)

Airbnb

Foursquare

Grindr

RunKeeper

Uber

Best Tablet Application (2010 winner: Flipboard)

djay

Eventbrite At the Door

Fotopedia

GarageBand

Netflix

StumbleUpon

Best Design (2010 winner: gogobot)

Gojee

Orchestra

Path 2.0

Pinterest

Quora

Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)

Github

Imgur

Instapaper

Onesheet

Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)

Best Cloud Service (New category for 2011)

Asana

Box

CloudFlare

Dropbox

Okta

Twilio

Best International Startup (2010 winner: Viki)

Badoo

Klarna

Peixe Urbano

Rovio

SoundCloud

Wonga

Best Clean Tech Startup (2010 winner: SolarCity)

Alta Energy

Array Power

EcoATM

EcoMotors

Hara



Best New Device (2010 winner: iPad)

Galaxy Nexus

iPad 2

iPhone 4S

Kindle Fire

Nest

Best Time Sink (2010 winner: Cityville)

Modern Warfare 3

Quora

Skyrim

Turntable.fm

Words With Friends

Biggest Social Impact (New category for 2011)

Charity: Water

Khan Academy

Kickstarter

Practice Fusion

Twitter

Angel of the Year (2010 winner: Paul Graham)

Ron Conway

Paul Graham

Reid Hoffman

Keith Rabois

Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (AngelList)

Kevin Rose

VC of the Year (2010 winner: Yuri Milner)

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz

Matt Cohler

Vinod Khosla

Aileen Lee

Yuri Milner

David Sze

Founder of the Year (2010 winner: Mark Pincus)

Leah Busque (Task Rabbit)

Brian Chesky (Airbnb)

Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter)

Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane)

Drew Houston (Dropbox)

CEO of the Year (2010 winner: Andrew Mason)

Dick Costolo (Twitter)

Daniel Ek (Spotify)

Phil Libin (Evernote)

Mark Pincus (Zynga)

Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn)

Best New Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Quora)

Codecademy

Fab

Nest

Pinterest

Turntable.fm

Best Overall Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Twitter)

Dropbox

Instagram

Gilt Groupe

Spotify

Square

Tumblr

5th Annual Crunchies Awards

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall

201 Van Ness Ave.

San Francisco, CA

7:30pm – midnight – Awards Ceremony and After Party

A night of celebration with festive attire.

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