We’ve reached the exciting part of the Crunchies, the awards celebrating the year’s best achievements in technology — the part where you get to choose the winners.

Readers already sent in tons of nominations, and a committee from the three co-hosting sites (that’s TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat) narrowed those down to six finalists in each of the 18 categories. Check out the finalists below, then click here to vote. Please remember that these awards are for accomplishments in 2009, not for the entire lifetime of these companies (or founders). Everyone is eligible to vote once per day per award category until ...

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