OStatic launches within the GigaOM network

The recuperating Om Malik announced the launch of OStatic (launch post) a little while ago. OStatic is an opensouce focused blog within the GigaOM network, and it looks pretty good. I’ll be following this one.

The Crunchies winners

The Crunchies is an Web 2.0-we-love-startups-award with a bunch of categories, hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOM, and Read/WriteWeb. The winners are announced, with Automattic (Matt’s got a post up), Digg, and Facebook being among the successful ones. Congratulations!