The 2007 Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
There are twenty award categories to recognize the year’ s most innovative technical, creative and business accomplishments of key companies, products and people.
- Best technology innovation/achievement: Earthmine
- Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme
- Best new gadget/device: iPhone
- Best business model: Zazzle
- Best design: SmugMug
- Best enterprise startup: Zoho
- Best consumer startup: Meebo
- Best mobile startup: Twitter
- Best international startup: Netvibes
- Best user-generated content: Digg
- Best video site: Hulu
- Best use of viral marketing: StumbleUpon
- Best clean tech startup: Tesla Motors
- Best time sink site: Kongregate
- Most likely to make the world a better place: DonorsChoose
- Most likely to succeed: WordPress
- Best startup founder: Mark Zuckerberg
- Best startup CEO: Toni Schneider
- Best new startup of 2007: iMedix
- Best overall: Facebook