Things continue to move ahead for restaurant booking service, Booking Angel. Last month they partnered with Boorah.com to rollout their service to over 30,000 restaurants in the US and just a couple of weeks ago they were named at number 7 in the Top 100 Aussie Web 2.0 apps list.

Now CEO & Founder Dean McEvoy is heading off to the States to see if he can raise a formal A round from US investors. They’ve raised funds from an incubator / Angels in Australia and through government grants, so a formal A round sounds like the next logical step.

Dean is going to be blogging about the investment process over on his blog, so it should make some interesting reading over the next few months for those startups curious about how it works.

Data Portability champion and Faraday Media co-founder Chris Saad has recently announced he’s on his way back to Australia after a 6-month stint in the U.S

Data Portability is one of the most important movements in the world of online tech at the moment, so to have Chris back in the country, if only for a couple of months, is a real bonus.

With some luck he’ll be doing the meetup/summit/TechNation interview circuit and updating us on his projects and thoughts about the future of the web.

Welcome home, Chris.