Crunchies Awards finalists announced. Voting now open!

Crunchies Awards finalists announced. Voting now open!:

The votes are in! When all said and done, over 300,000 nominations were calculated across 20 categories. Along with our partners TechCrunch and GigaOm, we’re proud to announce this year’s finalists for the 2011 Crunchies Awards, which are taking place January 31 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

Voting starts now, and everyone is and encouraged to vote. You may vote once per day, per award category, until voting closes on Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 11:59pm PST. There are 20 categories open for voting, recognizing the top accomplishments across a variety of fields and roles.

If you’re a finalist, create a badge here and rally your network to help drive votes.

In addition to today’s announcement of the finalists, we’re releasing a small batch of tickets. These tickets are available now, so act fast and get them while you can. You can buy them here.

Without further ado, here are your finalists:

Best Technology Achievement (2010 winner: Google Self Driving Cars)

Lytro

NFC

OnLive

Siri

Tesla Flat Pack Battery

Best Social Application (2010 winner: DailyBooth)

Facebook Timeline

Instagram

Google +

The New New Twitter

Path 2.0

Best Shopping Application (2010 winner: Groupon)

Birchbox

Fab

Gilt Groupe

Lot 18

Warby Parker

Best Mobile Application (2010 winner: Google Mobile Maps for Android)

Evernote

Flipboard

Pandora

Spotify

Square

Task Rabbit

Best Location Application (New category for 2011)

Airbnb

Foursquare

Grindr

RunKeeper

Uber

Best Tablet Application (2010 winner: Flipboard)

djay

Eventbrite At the Door

Fotopedia

GarageBand

Netflix

StumbleUpon

Best Design (2010 winner: gogobot)

Gojee

Orchestra

Path 2.0

Pinterest

Quora

Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)

Github

Imgur

Instapaper

One Sheet

Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)

Best Cloud Service (New category for 2011)

Asana

Box

CloudFlare

Dropbox

Okta

Twilio

Best International Startup (2010 winner: Viki)

Badoo

Klarna

Peixe Urbano

Rovio

SoundCloud

Wonga

Best Clean Tech Startup (2010 winner: SolarCity)

Alta Energy

Array Power

EcoATM

Eco Motors

Hara

Best New Device (2010 winner: iPad)

Galaxy Nexus

iPad 2

iPhone 4S

Kindle Fire

Nest

Best Time Sink (2010 winner: Cityville)

Modern Warfare 3

Quora

Skyrim

Turntable.fm

Words With Friends

Biggest Social Impact (New category for 2011)

Charity: Water

Khan Academy

Kickstarter

Practice Fusion

Twitter

Angel of the Year (2010 winner: Paul Graham)

Ron Conway

Paul Graham

Reid Hoffman

Keith Rabois

Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi

Kevin Rose

VC of the Year (2010 winner: Yuri Milner)

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz

Matt Cohler

Vinod Khosla

Aileen Lee

Yuri Milner

David Sze

Founder of the Year (2010 winner: Mark Pincus)

Leah Busque (Task Rabbit)

Brian Chesky (Airbnb)

Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter)

Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane)

Drew Houston (Dropbox)

CEO of the Year (2010 winner: Andrew Mason)

Dick Costolo (Twitter)

Daniel Ek (Spotify)

Phil Libin (Evernote)

Mark Pincus (Zynga)

Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn)

Best New Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Quora)

Codeacademy

Fab

Nest

Pinterest

Turntable.fm

Best Overall Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Twitter)

Dropbox

Instagram

Gilt Groupe

Spotify

Square

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