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Crunchies Awards 2009: Facebook Best Overall Startup/Product

January 12, 2010

The annual Crunchies Awards was established to recognize startups and innovations in technology and on the internet.

Last Friday, 8 January 2010, at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Facebook received the top price at the Crunchies Awards 2009: Best Overall Startup/Product award for three years in a row!

The Crunchies 300x225 Crunchies Awards 2009: Facebook Best Overall Startup/Product

This year’s Awards were co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. It is the third since these awards was established.

Facebook was nominated twice: for Best Overall Startup/Product and for Best Design (Facebook Mobile). Facebook won the former and was runner-up for the latter.

Other winners include:

  • Google Chrome OS (for Best Technology Achievement)
  • Dropbox (for Best Internet Application)
  • FarmVille (for Best Social App)
  • Tinychat (for Best Bootstrapped Startup)
  • FourSquare (for Best Mobile Application)
  • Spotify (for Best International)
  • DailyBooth (for Best Time Sink Application)
  • Animoto (for Best Design)
  • Google Docs/Office (for Best Enterprise)
  • Sun Run (for Best Clean Tech)
  • Barnes&Nobles nook (for Best New Gadget)
  • Spark (for Best Tech PR)
  • Ron Conway of SV Angel (for Best Angel)
  • Accel Partners (for Best VC Firm)
  • Aaron Patzer of Mint (for Founder of the Year)
  • Mark Pincus of Zynga (for CEO of the Year)
  • Bing from Microsoft (for Best New Startup or Product of 2009)

Congratulations to Facebook! All the hard work certainly paid off.

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FarmVille Wins Best Social App of 2009

January 10, 2010

The Crunchies Awards is an annual competition for startups, internet, and technology innovations of the year. The 2009 awards were held last Friday, 8 January 2010 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Guess who won the Best Social App award? FarmVille!

FarmVille competed with

FarmVille is Zynga’s top Facebook game, followed by Mafia Wars, CafeWorld, FishVille, and Zynga Poker. Currently, this game has over 73 million monthly active users in Facebook, alone. The game is popular to those between 18 and 35 years old, although there are those who are already in the 50s and older who still play the game.

This Facebook app is played all over the world. Below is the ranking based on the number of users from different countries:

  1. USA
  2. Turkey
  3. Philippines
  4. United Kingdom
  5. Italy
  6. Canada

A new feature of the game is being able to feed the chickens in the player’s neighbors’ coops. Doing this earns the player 4 coins and 1 experience point. After feeding, the chickens then lay an egg. If it is a mystery egg, the player can post it on their wall and friends can claim the egg and open the mystery eggs to get a mystery item.

FarmVille 300x92 FarmVille Wins Best Social App of 2009

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