Update — Startup questionnaires go out this evening (Monday, May 17th). If you don’t receive one and think that you should have, please contact ma@cringely.com or courtney@cringely.com to that effect. The list of MIA nominees below is current as of Monday afternoon. — Bob
Nominations for the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour are officially closed.
The next step is distributing to a designated founder or executive at each nominated company our festive questionnaire.
Despite the hard work of Mary Alyce Cringely and Miss Courtney, we still have more than 100 nominated companies for which no official contact e-mail address yet exists. We have written to all these companies and called all of them but for some […]

It’s time for me to weigh-in again on the beef between Apple and Adobe over Flash versus HTML5. Why is this such a big deal that it seems to be verging on a blood feud? What turned these two companies so ruthlessly against each other that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is writing anti-Flash essays on the Apple web page while Adobe is giving all of its employees free Google Android phones that run Flash?
There are approximately two weeks to go for nominations to the Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour. With just under 400 companies nominated so far, both in the open and in stealth mode, my goal for the next two weeks is to break 400, making it that much harder to decide on a final 24.