New York - Viacom's mtvU college network and partner Cisco on Wednesday launched five online applications developed by college students as part of their Digital Incubator program, which provides up to $250,000 in grants each year to students' interactive projects. The winning projects include RapHappy (NYU), a mobile phone-based hip-hop community; Osiris (Brown), which creates music videos using lyrics and images pulled from Flickr; Casablanca (NYU), a mobile party game; Selectricity (M.I.T.), an online communal ranking technology; and How Do I Say This? (UCLA), a Web-based advice wiki.

New York - Viacom's mtvU campus network and partner Cisco Systems on Monday announced the five student group recipients of $30,000 grants in their "Digital Incubator" program, aimed at "pioneering the next generation of digital applications and content." The projects include elements of social networking, mobile games, online interactivity, affinity-based websites and short-form broadband programming. Now in its second year, the program this year will encourage grant recipients to submit a detailed business plan and pitch MTV and Cisco executives for a supplemental grant of up to $100,000.