Sunday, January 11, 2009

Crunchies 2008 Winners...

Crunchies 2008 has some interesting winners for this year... like Microsoft making into the list, competition in mobile apps has been strong...

1. Best Application or Service - Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader/view/
2. Best Technology Innovation/Achievement - Windows Live Mesh - https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/default.aspx
3. Best Design - Cooliris - http://www.cooliris.com/
4. Best Bootstrapped Startup - GitHub - http://github.com/
5. Best Enterprise Startup - Amazon Web Services - http://aws.amazon.com/
6. Best International Startup - eBuddy - http://www.ebuddy.com/
7. Best Clean Tech Startup - Project Frog - http://www.projectfrog.com/
8. Best Gadget - iPhone 3G - http://www.apple.com/iphone/
9. Best Mobile Startup - Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/
10. Best Mobile Application - imeem mobile - http://www.imeem.com/
11. Best New Startup of 2008 - Friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com/
12. Best Overall Startup - Facebook - http://www.facebook.com

Read more on Crunchies site @ http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/

Few questions to think / ponder about:
1. What are the learning's to take from these startup's that have won the award? is it their business model? team? funding? - behind their success...
2. How many years will social networks dominate? Facebook is the winner for second consecutive year & FriendFeed being the new startup
3. Is Google Android giving any serious competition to iPhone? will they be able to get the required adoption by mobile manufacturers?
4. Can Windows 7 introduce any new products for startup category next year?
5. Looks like India based startup's did not even make into final nominees, are we being innovative enough?

-Bhaskara

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