For the 2007 Crunchies, 110,872 votes were cast for the finalists in the following categories:

Best technology innovation / achievement

Recognition for best new technology achievement or breakthrough

Nominees: Earthmine, Like, Move Networks, Twine, Viewdle

Best bootstrapped start-up

For a company that has raised less than $100.000 from individuals, angels or others

Nominees: FriendFeed, PoliticalBase, ProductWiki, TechMeme, UpNext

Best new gadget / device

For the best new Internet-accessible electronics device launched in 2007

Nominees: iPhone, Kindle, Ooma, Pleo, Wii

Best business model

For a company that’s pioneering new revenue-creation opportunities

Nominees: Glam Media, Imeem, Prosper, Weatherbill, Zazzle

Best design

Recognition for best user-interface design

Nominees: Etsy, Jackson Fish Market, Netvibes, SmugMug, Songza

Best enterprise start-up

For a start-up focused on enterprise or business-to-business applications and services

Nominees: 37signals, Attributor, EditGrid, Ribbit, Zoho

Best consumer start-up

For a start-up focused on consumer-facing applications and services

Nominees: 1800-FREE-411, 23andMe, LinkedIn, Meebo, Zillow

Best mobile start-up

For companies who provide mobile content or mobile distribution platforms

Nominees: AdMob, Fring, Loopt, Shozu, Twitter

Best international start-up

To recognize start-up achievement outside the United States (company must be founded, headquartered and operated primarily outside the US)

Nominees: Atlassian, Gizmoz, MusicShake, Netvibes, Openads (now OpenX)

Best user-generated content site

For sites who rely on content created primarily from users

Nominees: Digg, Facebook, Geni, Instructables, Yelp

Best video site

For sites who distribute video and/or other rich-media content

Nominees: Aniboom, Hulu, Joost, Justin.tv, Tokbox

Best clean tech start-up

For companies focused on environmentally conscious technology applications

Nominees: A123Systems, Ausra, GridPoint, NanoSolar, Tesla Motors

Best use of viral marketing

For the company that has demonstrated the best use of viral marketing techniques to drive distribution

Nominees: Flixster, iLike, iminlikewithyou, RockYou, StumbleUpon

Best time sink site

Favorite site to use when you’re not working or not wanting to think about work

Nominees: College Humor, Duels, Kdice, Kongregate, Pandora

Most likely to make the world a better place

To recognize a site that is making an important social impact in the world. Site does not need to be a non-profit to qualify.

Nominees: Causes, DonorsChoose.org, Zerofootprint, Kiva, One Laptop Per Child

Most likely to succeed

Site most likely to meet with future financial success (may be defined as revenue creation, a big exit, or other future accomplishment)

Nominees: Kayak, Mint, Slide, Wordpress, Zivity

Best start-up founder

Award to recognize an exemplary start-up business founder

Nominees: Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Max Levchin (Slide), Kevin Rose (Digg), Evan Williams (Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Best start-up CEO

Award to recognize an exemplary start-up business CEO

Nominees: Gina Bianchini (Ning), Dick Costolo (Feedburner), Toni Schneider (Automattic), Rob Solomon (Sidestep), Lance Tokuda (RockYou)

Best new start-up of 2007

Company must have been founded in 2007

Nominees: Hulu, iMedix, Joost, Ribbit, Tumblr

Best overall

For the best overall site or product of 2007

Nominees: Digg, Facebook, GrandCentral, Twitter, Zillow