Was surfing the web yesterday and found an interesting post on GigaOm about the creation of a “Grammy” Awards for web start ups called The Crunchies. The effort is collaborative between GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. Here is a summary of what The Crunchies will be straight from Om Malik:

“In order to recognize the start-ups and their achievements, we are teaming up with TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat to collaborate on the Crunchies. They are like the Grammies and the Webbys with a People’s Choice flavor, only for start-ups! The idea is to get the respective communities of various blogs to collaborate and vote and help pick the top start-ups of the year. Details to follow…”

Naturally I headed straight over to TechCrunch’s site to see if I could get anymore info, there wasn’t much more to be found over there then this:

“The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony for the most compelling startups of the year.”

TechCrunch will be updating their website with details, http://crunchies.techcrunch.com/. This should be interesting to see which startups will be nominated and what categories they will have.