beijing Olympics - Enjoy the olympic extravaganza with these resources

August 8, 2008 – 4:02 pm

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The Beijing Olympics is just a few hours away.One of the most awaited events of the year is going to start in few hours.Here are some ways by which you can keep in touch with the Beijing Olympics.

You can follow all the action that takes place in Beijing in many ways. You can visit the official Beijing Olympics website to keep up with latest news & events.You can watch all the action of Olympics live at NBCOlympics.com. The live sports channel is promising to stream over 2,000 hours of live content and 3,000 hours of on-demand videos over Internet but only for countries where the channel bought the telecasting rights like USA.

If you live outside the places where NBC has telecasting rights then you will be able to turn to YouTube to view clips from the olympics. Viewers in 77 different countries will be able to watch the clips on demand for free including India,Korea etc but youtube will only show highlights & it won’t be able to livestream the events.

Here’s the list of places where you will get live streaming:

Live streaming websites of UK, US, Australia and Canada

• USA  - http://www.nbcolympics.com/ (NBC)
• United Kingdom - http://bbc.co.uk/olympics (BBC)
• Australia -  http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/ (ABC)
• Canada - http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/ (CBC)

Cell phone users can catch on the Olympics by visiting NBC Olympics Mobile. Watching Beijing 2008 online and on cell phones is absolutely free.

Every form of media will be covering the olympics & so will blogs.Here’s a list of blogs that will be covering the olympic events.Thanks techie buzz for this list.

• NY Times Olympics Blog
• BBC Sport Olympics Blog
• Yahoo 7 Olympics Blog
• LA Times Olympics Blog
• ABC Olympics Blog
• Indian Olympic Blog
• Beijing Olympics Fan
• Beijing Olympics Blog
• Olympic Games Blog
• China Olympics Blog

Here’s the google way of staying in touch with Beijing olympics:

Go to google.com & type in a game that is there in olympics with the word ‘olympics’ & the search result page will have a list of events related to that sports & the results.

Google has updated its maps for the beijing Olympics.The brand new imagery of Beijing Olympics contains recent images that gives you a birds- eye view of the venue.The pictures are amazing & can be useful for finding the routes in beijing for the lucky ones who get to see the Olympics live.

Get the google gadgets for your igoogle page & your google desktop client:

• Olympic 2008 Countdown Gadget for Google Desktop / iGoogle
• Beijing Olympics schedules and results Gadget for Google Desktop

Check out the google logo for Beijing Olympics:

Wallpaper & Screensaver :

Download the Beijing Wallpapers & Screensaver and enjoy for the Olympics from the Official Beijing fun site.These are available in 5 different screen resolutions (1024×768, 1152×864,1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050).

Social networking :

For all those social network lovers (including me) Friendfeed is having a Beijing Olympics room to give you the latest news on the Olympics.It is expected that the room will have latest news, pictures and live updates.

Even the bloggers can join the extravaganza :

For all those bloggers who love the olympics, here are a few places from where you can get Olympic themes for your blog:

• Beijing Olympics Wordpress Theme - 1
• Beijing Olympics Wordpress Theme -2
• Beijing Olympics Wordpress Theme -3
• Beijing Olympics Blogspot Theme
• Beijing Olympics mascots Blogger Theme

Have these widgets in your blog to tell your readers about the latest updates on Olympics:

• USA Today Olympic Widget
• Newsgator Olympic Widget

So, enjoy THE BEIJING OLYMPICS with all these sources & have a blast of fun.Remember it comes ones in 4 years, so don’t miss a thing!!

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