We're still building Kapitall, and hope to be ready by the end of the summer. Here is a brief summary of what's been going on Backstage over the last month.

ReadWriteWeb Called Kapitall a Wii for Investing
ReadWriteWeb journalist and video blogger, Jolie O'Dell, got to the core of what we're trying to achieve: Putting a democratic spin on financial tools. "The Kapitall team is looking to open up their API within a year or so," she wrote, "to put their tech into the hands of as many people as possible and remove investing from its centralized position on Wall Street."

Kapitall CEO, Gaspard de Dreuzy, held his own at the Internet Week Panel on Online Financial Services
At times, Gaspard became the center of attention as the panel members tested the assumptions of the Kapitall business model.

We Found Some Vintage Inflation Propaganda
The U.S. government had to print vast sums of money to prevent the economy from slipping into a deflationary spiral of falling asset prices. But this isn't the first time the Fed used inflation as a solution to a financial crisis, as this 1933 propaganda film explains.

We Found A Crowdsourcing Alternative to Bond Rating Agencies
There has to be a better way to measure corporate risk. Credit rating agencies like Moody's (MCO) and Standard & Poor's lack transparency, use narrow data sets and rely on too few models to calculate corporate risk. Is crowdsourcing the solution?

We Started Leaking Some Of Kapitall's Lists
Kapitall's editors will often use lists to give you investing ideas. We're giving you a sneak peak by releasing lists of Chinese stocks, wedding stocks, food crisis stocks and deflation stocks.

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