Popular tech blogs GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch are banding together to celebrate “what went right in 2008″ with the 2008 Crunchies, which they describe as “our sometimes kitschy and irreverent awards ceremony”.

2008 has been a great year for us here at Pelago, and you can nominate Whrrl for the Best Mobile Award today!

Click the image below to be taken to the nominations page, and remember you can vote once a day until November 30th.

Wonder why they’re smiling (other than the inevitable “say cheese” behind the camera)?  John, John and Jeff got a chance to enjoy the sunshine!

Photo Credit: Nicole

Great news!

Thanks to your help, Whrrl has been successfully nominated for the Mashable Open Web Awards in the Places & Events category.

Once again, we’re calling on your help because now you can vote once per day until Nov. 30th.

Voting for Whrrl in this round will give us a chance of entering the final round of voting, which begins December 1st and ends December 15th.

As always, we’ll keep you posted as the competition continues and want to thank you for your ongoing support of Whrrl.

We’re in the final few days to nominate Whrrl for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, so head on over to Mashable and fill out this form to nominate Whrrl.  The deadline for nominations is this Sunday night at 11:59pm so don’t wait!

Thanks for your support of Whrrl, we’ll keep you posted once we find out the results of the nominations and give you all the details on the voting round after that.

Oh, and have a great weekend!

There was an infamous “blue shirt” sighting at Hops & Chops at Linda’s Tavern a couple weeks ago.  Dave Schappell (founder of Teachstreet), Brian Westbrook (News Radio 750 KXL Tech Expert), and Bill Nordwall (co-founder of Foundry Interactive) rocked the exclusive duds together for many a photo-op.

I shipped the last 10 of these prints out, and we’re in the process of coming up with a new design.  I’ve already gotten pictures back from one happy recipient, and would love to see more!  Here are a few shots from Kevin’s Whrrl promo photo set on Flickr:

Kevin also wants everyone to know that he didn’t dye his hair blue for Whrrl, that’s a blue feather hat he’s wearing. Thanks for the pictures - enjoy the shirt!