FUTURE OF MEDIA Inspiring Innovation Fueling the Future of Media We are launching the “Future of Media” Initiative to catalyse growth in the interactive digital media (IDM) sector. In 2009, we are including Future Mobile, Future Games, Future TV, Future Worlds and Future Books. The vision of Future of Media is to pull together companies [...]
Making money off the web Four IDMPO funded companies were recently featured in Digital Life for their unique and viable business models, and who have been gaining traction (in terms of profit and user outreach) through social networking platforms such as Facebook, Friendster, Second Life and so on. The four companies profiled were iHipo (international [...]
2008 has been a good year for IDM. 2 years into the programme, an IDM eco-system is taking shape, evidenced by the burgeoning number of world-class research players that are establishing a presence in Singapore, a budding IDM industry, and growing numbers of young startups, incubators and global contributors. To date, 500 RSEs (researchers, scientists [...]
It’s been an exciting 2 months for IDM as our fundees from NUS beat 56 teams from 17 countries in a competition lasting10 months to win the The Star Challenge@Fusionoplis organized by A*STAR, students from Team GAMBIT beat 350 other teams from over 100 countries to win the top prize in Microsoft’s XNA Dream-Build-Play Competition, [...]
In this month’s issue, $12m Awarded to Co-Space™ Projects A Closer Look at the Co-Space™ Projects IDMPO Entrepreneurs Nominated for BusinessWeek’s Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs IDMPO Companies’ Found Success through Facebook
In this month’s issue, Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society The Move to Fusionopolis $18m boost for IDM projects International Experts Impressed with IDM Efforts KooBits and PGK Media Wins the InfoComm Singapore Awards 2008 Developments of GAMBIT
i.JAMMING Networking Session IDMPO’s bimonthly networking session is here again. The event provides a conducive environment to meet and explore collaboration opportunities in the IDM sector. We are expecting over 400 participants, ranging from industry practitioners, researchers to startups. In this session, we will be announcing Stream Global as our new incubator, and new partnerships [...]
Topics iMATCH Upcoming international events BCA iDIOTS- NUS Industrial Design Graduation Show 2008 NRF Research Fellowship
Topics IDMPO at BroadcastAsia 2008 Gaming Gets Serious Gimme a ”C”, ”I”, ”D” and ”M” Sound Research in NTU Hear That?
Topics Co-Space Call for Proposal Gambit Open house F11 in preparation Transforms- an exhibition of works by students of Interactive Art Program at Lasalle College of the Arts Music Moves