From The Guys at Animoto

Last night at the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to celebrate all the achievements of various companies… from the big boys of Facebook, Google, Microsoft & Amazon, to the new guys on the block like Twitter, FriendFeed, GitHub, Hulu and, well… us.

It seems kind of ridiculous to even include us in the same sentence as these guys.  These are truly the heros, inspirations, and idols of the industry. But what was amazing about last night was the utter lack of ego or pretentiousness.

With people sitting around us like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, and Google product chief Marissa Mayer, it was hard not being just wee bit giddy… you know, like we were going to pee our pants.

But there was a genuine spirit of camaraderie & community in the air, the general message being… hey, the economy may be in the crappers and times may be stressful, but there’s still much to celebrate, much to be proud of, and still much more to innovate in our futures ahead together.

Here’s are some of the highlights from the awards ceremony & after-party at City Hall:

We’re proud to say we were awarded runner-up in our category of Best Design.  But we’re even more proud to have shared the category with such incredible companies like SlideRocket, FriendFeed, Infectious, LaLa… and the winner Cooliris, who are completely amazing!  We’re really honored and humbled to be Crunching it up with all of you guys this year.

On to 2009!  Or as we like to say, one year closer in our plans to acquire Google.

~ by jason on january 10th, 2008.