We're covering the Crunchies, live

by Victor Agreda, Jr. on January 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Nik Fletcher and I are in the Herbst Theatre in downtown San Francisco covering the 2nd annual Crunchies -- billed as "our sometimes kitschy and irreverent awards ceremony" celebrating the best of the web. Or something. Perhaps Fake Steve Jobs said it best in this acceptance speech video.

Follow downloadsquad on Twitter for up-to-date activities, and at the end of the ceremony we'll provide a wrap-up. Who knows, maybe Loren Feldman will do one-handed pushups on the stage and prove just how weak the rest of us really are.

Update: It's currently the Crunchies version of halftime, with Paul Graham of Y Combinator talking about how startups can survive in these trying economic times...

Update 2: And now a few questions with Marissa Mayer, again about how crappy the economy is and advertising, startups, blah, blah. (Note: Most of the people backstage are filthy rich).

Best web app: Google Reader

The rest on the next page...

Best Innovation/achievement: Microsoft Live Mesh

Best Design: Cooliris

Best bootsrapped product: GitHub

"Most likely to make the world a better place": Good Guide

Best Enterprise: Amazon Web Services

Best International: ebuddy

Best Clean Tech: Project Frog

Best New Gadget: iPhone

Best Time Sink: Tap Tap Revenge

Best Mobile Startup: Evernote

Best Mobile App: imeem mobile

Best Startup Founders: the Twitter guys

Best CEO: Mark Zuckerberg

Best New Startup of 2008: Friendfeed

Best Overall: Twitter was runner-up, Facebook won.

We'll have a gallery when we're done drinking MySpace's booze!

Tags: crunchies, live, twitter