Conferences which allow startups and potential investors to get together are a common occurrence. However, a very different kind of startup conference is set to take place in Amsterdam next month. Instead of startups pitching to investors, the roles will be reversed.Capital On Stagewill see investors presenting themselves to the entrepreneurs. Investors from across Europe and Israel will be in attendance, ranging from seed round angels to VCs and private equity....

In a matter of two hours, the ‘Attending’ status of the online event went from nearly 86 thousand to around 110 thousand Facebook members. Theevent pagebares the description: “As one million march on the streets of Egypt, our goal is to reach one million voices in support of their march. Reply “Attending” if you are virtually marching with Egypt.” Not withholding their names, the organizers of the ‘Virtual “March of Millions” in Solidarity with Egyptian Protestors’ have managed to create a viral online movement that people are joining from all around the world....

GoSquared, a real-time website monitoring company based in London, has produced avisualizationof how events in London unfolded over the past few days. During the riots, a number of websites signed up to GoSquared which were created for the sole purpose of making sense of the chaos, for exampleLondon Riots Map. James Gill, CEO of GoSquared, said: “Through permission from the people responsible for these sites, this gave us a very good insight into how the public were keeping track of the situation, and so the spikes in traffic we were witnessing across parts of our network were directly caused by the huge volumes of traffic on some of these sites monitoring the situation via Twitter and other sources....

I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would get the chance to write about a company promoting its new beer by making a website entirely made out of chocolate but that is what we have today. The campaign is from Sagres, a Portugese brewery and as they say in the video they didn’t have enough budget for a print or TV campaign so had to come up with something unique online....

The iPhone, and various versions of it, has been my mobile of choice for the last few years. I recently met with a few people from the Windows Phone 7 team and they introduced their phone to me. With the news this week ofNokia planningto shop Windows 7 phones, this mobile OS is soon to grow very fast globally. The phone has deep social integration and brings a completely new and intuitive UI to smart phones....