Just a couple months after the last gathering, we’ve again brought Hong Kong’s web 2.0 entrepreneurs away from their makeshift offices/bedrooms/cubby holes to EditGrid’s luxurious office space.

Along with the previous startups, I brought in some of the recently discovered/profiled startups into the mix. It was very satisfying to see the number of startups discovered increase in just a couple months. We are seeing more and more startups building community based sites and choosing to cater Hong Kong and China unlike the earlier startups which served the overseas market. Let’s hope the public is willing to look beyond the services provided by the large Internet companies and begin to support local services.

Together with the startups, we were happy to have Catharina Maracke from Creative Commons (along with some nice schwag too) stop by. She was here to get the ball rolling on the much needed establishment of CC here in HK. Again, Y! HK came, with more presence and continued to follow the movement started by the little guys. I hope they can be more proactive in the future, since they do have the brand power to increase public awareness. It was my surprise to see several individuals from the local press there, digging up information and who knows what other things press people do.

Thanks Leon @ Lifehack.org for the photo.

There were more people here this time around and unfortunately I wasn’t able to meet everyone of them, next time. Thanks again to the EditGrid team for hosting this event and Uta for coordinating.

I must apologize to some of the readers here who showed interest from my previous post. We were definitely pressed for space this time as this event grew beyond our expectations. We will continue to look into further events and locate larger venue to accommodate everyone.

There’s a HK Web 2.0 Facebook group you can join, if you haven’t already.