Olympic games

The real time ability to connect with others and share experiences makes Twitter a great platform for individuals, or companies, to use in conjunction with a major event.

Microsoft released Silverlight 2 on Monday, the second major version of its platform for creating and delivering advanced multimedia applications and experiences in a Web browser.

The company also said it will continue to back Silverlight-related open-source communities, with funding for advanced Silverlight development based on the Eclipse Foundation's integrated development environment (IDE) and with new controls to developers via the Silverlight Control Pack.

As it’s now the end of September, I think it’s officially time for me to stop blogging about the Beijing Olympics. BUT I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT!
I’ve already shared what I feel the Lenovo Voices campaign represented for Athlete 2.0 and Olympics of the future. So before I (finally) put this one to bed, I want to post some thoughts about what made this a unique campaign to work on from the “agency side.”

Steve Ferguson woke up early on Friday -- 3 a.m. to be exact -- to watch his stepdaughter Margaux Isaksen, a 16-year-old Olympian, complete a grueling 11-hour performance in the modern pentathlon.

Ferguson did not watch Margaux compete in person. From his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he watched a live stream of her sport on NBCOlympics.com, where 2,200 live hours of the Summer Olympics were shown for Internet users.

Yesterday was the final day of the Beijing Olympics - and while I’m sorry to see the Games end, I’m proud about what they’ve represented from a social media standpoint.  Many people have compared the Internet powered evolution of the Games in Beijing to the 1960 Olympics in Rome where television revolutionized the public’s exposure to event, as well as the athletes.

Yesterday was the final day of the Beijing Olympics - and while I’m sorry to see the Games end, I’m proud about what they’ve represented from a social media standpoint.  Many people have compared the Internet powered evolution of the Games in Beijing to the 1960 Olympics in Rome where television revolutionized the public’s exposure to event, as well as the athletes.

Today is the final day of the Beijing Olympics - and while I’m sorry to see the Games end, I’m proud about what they’ve represented from a social media standpoint.  Many people have compared the Internet powered evolution of the Games in Beijing to the 1960 Olympics in Rome where television revolutionized the public’s exposure to event, as well as the athletes.

Given India's population, it is a puzzle why it has not won more Olympic medals. Anirudh Krishna and Eric Haglund provide one plausible answer in Economic and Political Weekly (via this piece in the Guardian):

Given India's population, it is a puzzle why it has not won more Olympic medals. Anirudh Krishna and Eric Haglund provide one plausible answer in Economic and Political Weekly (via this piece in the Guardian):

About half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or information about the Olympics have been trying out that technology for the first time, NBC said on Wednesday.

NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co., has been using the Olympics as something of a research lab to track the adoption of new media technology. Since the opening ceremony last Friday, the company has made content available online, through video on demand and via cell phones along with traditional TV.