» Vol. 31   March 2011

Cyberport hosts world-renowned World Summit Award Grand Jury and Conference

Let's participate in Earth Hour 2011

Cyberport successfully hosted Creative Mobile Advertising Forum

Cyberport's Privilege Card holders invited to Smart Travel Talk

CCMF 2010 awards five Hong Kong's hottest Web 3.0 start-ups with funding

Startups Connect series focuses on building up web infrastructure performance

Enjoy award-winning creations at Le Meridien Cyberport

Five promising Hong Kong start-up companies got a special break when they were granted HK$100,000 each as the winners of the Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) earlier this month.  Established to promote digital entrepreneurial talent in Hong Kong by Cyberport, this year's fund focused on start-ups that showed potential for capturing the opportunities of the next-generation Internet, or Web 3.0.

This is the second pilot scheme that Cyberport rolled out with a total of HK$500,000 seed money awarded to high-potential start-up projects or business concepts in the digital creative area, as part of Cyberport's mission to cultivate digital talent in Hong Kong and develop the city's credentials as a leading information and communications technology (ICT) hub in the region.

"It is highly encouraging to see the tremendous talents we have in Hong Kong, as represented by the five recipients of this year's seed fund," said Herman Lam, CEO of Cyberport.  "Cyberport is fully committed to facilitating the realisation of Hong Kong's potential as a digital powerhouse in Asia by investing in start-ups, SMEs and sparking creativity and innovation in the ICT industry.  The era of Web 3.0 will certainly bring in more opportunities to the ICT industry, not only for better experience enhancement, but also for our ICT talents who are committed to promoting innovation and technology.  We congratulate this year's winners and look forward to seeing their ideas come alive on the market in Hong Kong and beyond."

The CCMF 2010 winners are as follows:
 

Recipient	Project	Details
Mike Ko and Sam Yuen	Timable	Timable is a search platform that consolidates all sorts of activities and events and provides time-based event search capabilities.  The name of Timable comes from the concept that "Everything can be timed", which means that anything with a definite time period can be put in Timable. Timable can make use of a user's Internet browsing history, behaviour and real-time location to suggest the most suitable events, fitting them into his or her personal schedule, while arranging reservations and ticketing. Smartphone application of Timable will be launched in future.
Lucidus IT Solution Limited	Openballs Team Sports Community Builder and Management System	Openballs is an online community builder for all kinds of team sports that combines the features of the NBA, Facebook and Wikipedia.  Its user-friendly interface allows all groups and organizations to manage their sports activities easily.
SBS-Global Limited	Flipter	Flipter is an online platform that allows users to express thoughts and opinions on any topics, and to receive instant feedback and insights.  Users are also able to gather additional information through statistics and demographics and to post additional comments supporting their choice of answer.
Happy Valley Media Limited	Gr8	Gr8 is an augmented reality application that harnesses the power of Web 3.0 to simplify the process of buying or renting a home. Gr8 draws upon next-generation Internet technologies to provide a simple point-and-shoot system for on-the-go, owner-direct property information.
Taxizu Limited	Taxizu	Taxizu is an iPhone application that allows users to easily meet and share taxis from major transit hubs in and around Hong Kong.  Its broader role is as a tool for ad-hoc social gatherings – bringing anonymous groups of people together to serve a common purpose.

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