You might have heard of John Battelle. He plans the Web 2.0 Summits, wrote a book about Google, runs an online advertising company, among many other things. I spent some time with him this week talking about his predictions (which, for the past few years, have turned out to ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

The final session of the recent Graphing Social Patterns conference featured a “Fanboy” panel discussion moderated by Michael Arrington, from TechCrunch. With his bosom buddy Jason Calacanis on the panel, it became the “Arrington & Calacanis Show.” Fellow panelists Robert Scoble, Rodney Rumford, and Dave McClure had to fight their ...

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of ...

Trutap is a new mobile social networking application whose aim is let people stay connected with friends. Company CEO Doug Richard demonstrated the tool for the Mercury News at the recent TechCrunch40 conference.

We have quick profiles of two companies that launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last week. Metaplace lets users build their own virtual worlds and put them on their Websites. Founder Raph Koster takes us through a demo. And Musicshake is a Korea-based service that lets users create ...

Mint.com was voted the best company out of 700 submissions at the TechCrunch 40 conference. Before he won the award we sat down with CEO Aaron Patzer and got a good look at this financial management service. He showed us how it could save you thousands of dollars.

So you didn’t make it to the TechCrunch 40 conference, where Mint.com won the honors as the top start-up? Fear not, the Mercury News sat down with Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, for a quick demo of how the online money management tool works.

Online speed dating? Indeed. And WooMe, a San Francisco start-up, is hoping it’s big business. The company launched at the TechCrunch40 conference this week, along with Orgoo, a service that lets users merge all their email and IM accounts into one dashboard. In this video, WooMe’s Stephen ...

The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...

On Sunday, at the HP Garage, we met Joe Hewitt, the author of Facebook’s iPhone application. We just had a short chat with him, mostly to say thanks for building a cool app. There’s a longer audio conversation with Joe on TechCrunch today.

Michael Arrington & Steve Gillmor talk with vendors at TechCrunch MeetUp9 and have a chat with Om Malik or someone who looks a lot like him.

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

What do Guy Kawasaki, Jason Calcanis and TechCrunch all have in common? Neil Patel, co-founder of ACS Consulting, who is the search engine wizard behind these blogs’ success.

Content is king in the Top 100 blogging world and all of these blogs mentioned have great content — ...

Jay Pullur is the founder and CEO of Pramati Technologies. Here, he discusses how he set out on his entrepreneurial path with Pramati, and the company’s latest desktop platform product, Dekoh, recently featured on TechCrunch.

Steve Gillmor sits down with notorious tech mogul Jason Calacanis at his hideout in Los Angeles to discuss his latest announcement. He is forming a partnership with Mike Arrington to produce Tech Crunch 20, which is guaranteed to create a shake-up in the technology conference world. Is Jason’s ...

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks want for Christmas. What do you want for Christmas? ...

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says he uses BlueDot instead of other bookmarking for social Website sharing services. So, I headed up to Seattle to find out what was behind this innovative company. You’ll meet the entire team, get a demo, and more.

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MENLO PARK, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — An announcement today that Apple will be holding an invitation-only press event in San Francisco on September 12th is providing plenty of grist for the rumor mill, with the fringes dreaming of iPod-phones, and the mainstream predicting full-length movie downloads (and an upgraded iPod to play them on). PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group to sort through some of the grist from the mill.

MENLO PARK, August 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday it’s added Windows-based mobile phones to the list of phones that offer the Yahoo Go for Mobile suite, which includes e-mail, calendar, news, and photo albums. Internet companies are scrambling to give consumers the ability to stay connected to the functions they depend on when they’re tethered to their desks — even when they’re on the go. To do this, the companies are looking for partnerships with wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau visited Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus to talk Yahoo Go with David Riemer, vice president of marketing for Connected Life at Yahoo.

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google today announced a partnership with eBay that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising for eBay’s international sites. While a similar contract for eBay’s domestic sites went to Yahoo Inc. earlier this year, one component of today’s deal is click-to-call, in which users can click on an advertisement or an eBay listing and talk to the seller via a VOIP call. “This deal is mostly about practicality,” said Gartner Inc. Research Director Andrew Frank. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Frank by phone from his office in New York.

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new startups? What companies have we not yet heard much about ...

So Hitwise is reporting that del.icio.us traffic has doubled since the end of last year, which is quite impressive given the (apparently) low promotional support it has received from Yahoo since being acquired. The Hitwise report also highlights the valuable demographic that del.icio.us has been able to attract (25-34 ...

Talk about a Billion Dollar Baby for News Corp and what a week so far for Google. Google is putting out a series of big announcements this week. I think that the MySpace announcement in combination with the Viacom deal is big for Google. ...