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Coming Soon? The Crunchies – Startup Awards
Update: Appears we were right, unfortunately no TechMeme lead love. Also, VentureBeat has been added since the inital site went live.
Just noticed this on the Techcrunch toolbar, "Crunchies". It appears to be a partnership between Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOm. Webware/CNET had their similar Webware 100 earlier this year.
From the site, "The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony for the most compelling startups of the year."
Looks interesting and awards for the hard work and effort startups put in should be rewarded. If you think about it, all those startups is what keeps a good bit of the press moving! The Crunchies are sponsored by Sun.
I am curious as to the name choice – wouldn’t something general enough for all 3 sites make more sense? Will we see Mint win this too? LAWL :)
Update from a CN reader: Mashable launched "Mashable Awards" this past weekend though it seems to focus more on social networking and new social sites.
Whenever I see the “Crunchies” my mind replaces it with the “Muchies”, not sure why.
i find the crunchies to be the lamest idea. another event to promote each other driven by techcrunch. why don’t they let the so called community decide who decides. those blogs are getting lame with bubble induced fever. i think that i’m going to get sick on this one.
Thanks! Of course on TechMeme, I get no credit for breaking the story. Also find it interesting that VentureBeat was plopped on later on.
No Center Networks = no credibility.
Hopefully it won’t end up like a “let’s make as much $$ as possible from this and who cares about anything else” event, like the TC40 thing earlier this year.