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 ...

I caught up with Gabe, founder of Memeorandum, two weeks ago when he stopped by the PodTech Palo Alto studio for another first - Gabe’s first podcast - a PodTech Exclusive. The Full Transcript is at http://podtech.wordpress.com

Gabe kept his project top secret from most of ...