Posted on | Sunday, January 23, 2011 |
Micro-blogging site Twitter to beat up the won the award as the Startup / Best Product 2010 on the annual awards, Crunchies Awards.
This is the first time Twitter won the award in that category. This ceremony itself was held every year, since January 2008, to give awards to sites and the best applications in each category.
In addition to being the Startup / Best Product, Twitter also ranked second in the category of Best Social Application. Twitter defeated Dailybooth photo blog site.
Meanwhile, brand-new social networking site, Quora, won top honors in categories Startup / Best New Product 2010
Below are some nominees and winners Crunchies Awards 2010:
Startup or Best Product 2010
Facebook
Groupon (runnerup)
Quora Twitter (win)
Zynga
Startup or Best New Product 2010
Flipboard
GroupMe
Instagram
Quora (win)
Square (runnerup)
Uber
Best Internet Applications
Chartbeat
Greplin
Pandora (win)
Rdio (runnerup)
Ujam
Best Social Application
Cityville
Dailybooth (win)
Foursquare
GroupMe
Twitter (runnerup)
Best Mobile Application
Bump
Chomp
Google Mobile Maps for Android (win)
Hashable
Instagram (runnerup)
Best Location-Based Services
Facebook Places (runnerup)
Foursquare (win)
Gowalla
SimpleGeo
Uber
Best New Tool
Boxee Box
Google Chrome Notebook
iPad (win)
iPhone 4
Kno
Xbox Kinect (runnerup)
Best Design
1000memories
about.me (runnerup)
Airbnb
Flipboard
Gogobot (win)
Qwiki
Application Best Time Sink
Angry Birds (runnerup)
Cityville (win)
Netflix streaming
Quora
StumbleUpon
Founder of the Year
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare
Jack Dorsey, Square (runnerup)
Kevin and Julia Hartz, Eventbrite
David Karp, Tumblr
Mark Pincus, Zynga (won)
Best CEO
Dick Costolo, Twitter
Reed Hastings, Netflix
Drew Houston, Dropbox
Andrew Mason, Groupon (won)
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (runnerup)
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