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January 8th was the third annual Crunchies Awards, sponsored by the internet technology blog TechCrunch.

The event took place in partnership with GigaOM (see their recently referenced cloud computing article here) and VentureBeat (which has previously written about Brazil as the next frontier in social advertising).

More than 900 people gathered in the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for the awarding of the trophies to the best entrepreneurs, investors and startups in the world.

See the list of winners here.

And below you can see video of the awards in each category:
Live TV : Ustream

There was a time when we had to depend on the mass media for coverage of events we couldn’t attend. Today the coverage is interactive and collaborative: participants comment live on the internet (Olivia Mitchell has published an interesting ebook about the use of backchannels like Twitter).

Some events, like Intercon, offer platforms to map, encourage and add value to content that the public shares, even calling on the public to write articles for an official collaborative book about the event. Others, like TEDxSP also have real-time coverage via Twitter. Read more…

Brazilian startup SiliconReef is headquartered in Recife, the capital of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is now the winner of the business plan competition known as Challenge Brazil 2009 (sponsored by FGV/Intel Capital/Derraik Law Offices).

SiliconReef is prepared to produce and sell chips (integrated circuits) to improve the efficiency of equipment drawing on renewable sources of energy (green, or sustainable technology). The product, EH01, promises to improve efficiency in the energy generation and storage of wireless networks by up to 70%. Read more…

This is the perennial question. After all, everyone knows Silicon Valley, but not the equivalent in Brazil. The Government has a very important mission.

In the United States, there are hundreds of angel investor associations, venture capital funds, and a consolidated startup culture. In Brazil, there are four angel investor associations, several venture capital funds, and a few startups that have been very successful. Read more…

For some time we’ve seen professionals and companies talking about how it is economical, fast and secure to host data on remote servers - instead of buying your own infrastructure for hosting. That (and then some) is what is known as cloud computing. Software as a Service (SaaS) is also part of it. Read more…

ReadWriteWeb is a blog that provides analysis and covers trends relating to the internet and web technologies. It was created in 2003 by New Zealander Richard MacManus. This month RWW is promoting an event about real-time internet and is kicking off blogs in five countries, including Brazil. The blogs are written in the local languages and speak to the local realities. The Brazilian version, in Portuguese, launched today. Read more…