by Brian Solis
GigaOM, VentureBeat, Read/Write Web, and TechCrunch jointly announced the finalists for the Crunchies. Click here to vote.
Best technology innovation / achievement
Nominees: Earthmine, Like, Move Networks, Twine, Viewdle
Best bootstrapped start-up
Nominees: FriendFeed, PoliticalBase, ProductWiki, Techmeme, UpNext
Best new gadget / device
Nominees: iPhone, Kindle, Ooma, Pleo, Wii
Best business model
Nominees: Glam Media, Imeem, Prosper, Weatherbill, Zazzle
Best design
Nominees: Etsy, Jackson Fish Market, Netvibes, SmugMug, Songza
Best enterprise start-up
Nominees: 37Signals, Attributor, EditGrid, Ribbit, Zoho
Best consumer start-up
Nominees: 1800-FREE-411, 23andMe, LinkedIn, Meebo, Zillow
Best mobile start-up
Nominees: AdMob, Fring, Loopt, Shozu, Twitter
Best international start-up
Nominees: Atlassian, Gizmoz, MusicShake, Netvibes, Openads
Best user-generated content site
Nominees: Digg, Facebook, Geni, Instructables, Yelp
Best video site
Nominees: Aniboom, Hulu, Joost, Justin.tv, Tokbox
Best clean tech start-up
Nominees: A123Systems, Ausra, Gridpoint, NanoSolar, Tesla Motors
Best use of viral marketing
Nominees: Flixster, iLike, iminlikewithyou, RockYou, StumbleUpon
Best time sink site
Nominees: College Humor, Duels, Kdice, Kongregate, Pandora
Most likely to make the world a better place
Nominees: Causes, DonorsChoose, ZeroFootprint, Kiva, One Laptop Per Child
Most likely to succeed
Nominees: Kayak, Mint, Slide, WordPress, Zivity
Best start-up founder
Nominees: Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Max Levchin (Slide), Kevin Rose (Digg), Evan Williams (Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Best start-up CEO
Nominees: Gina Bianchini (Ning), Dick Costolo (Feedburner), Toni Schneider (WordPress), Rob Solomon (Sidestep), Lance Takoda (RockYou)
Best new start-up of 2007
Nominees: Hulu, iMedix, Joost, Ribbit, Tumblr
Best overall
Nominees: Digg, Facebook, GrandCentral, Twitter, Zillow
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