The Intelligent Airport Seminar 24 March 2009
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), a seminar on "The Intelligent Airport" project - 24 March 2009
Led by the University of Cambridge, The Intelligent Airport (TINA) is a large applied research project. Its aim is to investigate innovative technologies and applications for intelligent airports. The project has strong industrial support. For example, the project team has been collaborating with Arup, BAA, Boeing, Laing O'Rourke, Motorola, Red-M, Tyco and Zinwave.
The TINA project also involves collaboration/support of Cambridge alumni, and PolyU's students and researchers.
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In the photos Professor Alison Richard, Professor Jon Crowcroft, Professor Thomas Tong, Dr. Henry Chan, Dr. Dominic Chan, Professor Lai Wan Chan
The Art and Science of Free-lancing (Part 2)
How to utilize free tools for the accounting, IT and marketing needs of your freelancing career?
A workshop co-organized by BiliBa and Leglessbird and co-hosted by Dominic Chan and Helen Cheng
So, as a freelancer, you need to take care of everything, by yourself. At the same time, you still need to do whatever other small or medium or even big companies need to do, the accounting, the IT, the marketing. The difference is that you don?t have or you don?t want to spend a big chunk of your income buying software, hiring accountants and auditors?What can you do?
In a 2 hour workshop, Dominic and Helen will introduce to you some of the very user friendly, and most importantly, free tools such as accounting software, free office, free advertising opportunities, etc?It is a practical workshop for freelancers or even start-ups on how to save money without compromising the efficiency and quality of your services and lifestyle.
Below is information for the workshop:
Date: 14 June, 2009 (Sunday)
Time: 3:30p.m.?5:30p.m.
Venue: Mix, Cascade, Shop 11, 3 Queen's Road Central, Standard Chartered Bank Building, Central Tel: 25237396
Cost: HKD90/head (including a drink and some finger foods).
***Please pay to Helen at the door.
Please join us and bring friends to join us.
Hiking Sai Kung West Country Park - Sat 13 June 2009 1pm
Sai Kung West Country Park 西貢郊野公園
Date: Sat 13 June 2009
Meeting time: 1pm (come after your lunch)
Meeting Point: Bus stop for 96R at Diamond Hill MTR station
Difficulty: 2 out of 5 (5=hard)
Time: 4 hour hiking time
Please be on time: We don't wait for late comer!
Please bring: snacks, water (1.5 - 2 litres), sun-screen, hat/umbrella, torch
Please reply Email by Fri 12 June 2009
Description:
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Tech summer intern for Expedia (Hong Kong)
JOB DESCRIPTION ? SUMMER INTERNSHIP, EXPEDIA AFFILIATE NETWORK
Are you a web-savvy and entrepreneurial university engineering / computer science student looking for an interesting and challenging internship with one of the biggest names in online travel? If so, this exciting and unusual internship with Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) might be right up your street. This is an 8-12 week project based in Hong Kong.
Project brief: Through various past acquisitions, EAN owns a number of valuable domain names such as www.orlando.com. Today, the sites sitting on these URLs are out of date. We are looking for a creative and entrepreneurial intern to leverage the tools and solutions that EAN offers to our affiliates and to create a transactional in-house affiliate sites. Our tools range from customizable hosted templates to XML services. Once the site is live, the intern is free to try different traffic generation techniques as our affiliates would do (SEO landing pages, blogging etc.) to enhance site value. The intern will be asked to document the entire process on an internal blog diary / step by step guide ? including the time and challenges from start to going live, who they had to talk to, what documents they had to access and will be asked to present to the executive team at the end of the project, produce recommendations for how our offerings can be improved from an affiliate perspective.
Project objectives: EAN aims to achieve three main objectives through this project:
* To understand the end to end experience of our affiliates and areas that can be improved
* To potentially share extracts of this project in our developer?s forum with our affiliates
* To monetize and generate value from these valuable URLs we have in our portfolio
Project Phasing:
* Week 1: Understand and explore EAN tools, produce and present a project plan
* 6 ? 10 weeks: Site design / development work, traffic generation
* Final week: Evaluate results, prepare and present to executive and product management team
We are looking for:
* Engineering / computer science undergraduate student (or students with suitable programming skills)
* Creative, entrepreneurial, self-starter, ambitious, analytical
* Experience with web development: Photoshop, CSS, HTML, XML, Javascript (you must have created your own site before as a hobby or otherwise)
* Organized and able to manage to tight project schedule
About Expedia Affiliate Network and Expedia, Inc.
Expedia, Inc. is the world?s leading online travel company, empowering business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel. Expedia, Inc. also provides in-destination concierge service and activity desks for travelers. The Expedia, Inc. portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com®, hotels.com®, Hotwire®, Egencia?, TripAdvisor®, Expedia Local Expert?, Classic Vacations® and eLong?. Expedia, Inc.?s companies operate more than 50 global points of sale with sites in North America, South America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Expedia, Inc. is a component of the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit http://www.expediainc.com/ (NASDAQ: EXPE).
The Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) is a business unit within the Expedia Inc. portfolio generating over $1.5Bn of annual gross bookings. EAN is responsible for partnerships and affiliations with over 10k affiliates ranging from the largest airlines in the world to entrepreneurs who want to create their own online travel shop. EAN offers affiliates a powerful and flexible toolkit including hosted templates and APIs through an online affiliate center.
Wine and Dine with Leglessbird at Palace Kitchen
Chinese Private Kitchen in Happy Valley
Flat 'D', M/Floor, Bonny View House, No.63-65,Wong Nai Chung Road, Hong Kong
+852 28992844
www.palacekitchen.com.hk
