Everyone’s been looking tired this week. It seems like all my friends at DeviceVM have been staying up late to watch the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Whilst watching last night, I got somewhat tired of the same advertisements over and over again. I got out my laptop, powered on Splashtop and (instantly) began searching for online Olympic options. I found some great resources that pointed me in the right direction so I thought I’d forward them to you…
Note: thanks to SmartMobs for most of this info…
1. Qik - Qik is a live-streaming platform for your phone. It basically allows you to take out your phone and start streaming live to the web. Pretty cool, eh? Apparently they have about 18 people roaming around Beijing doing live Qik streams. Hope they charged their batteries.
Check out the Qik Olympic Channel here.
2. Daily Motion - Daily Motion is like YouTube in Europe. There’s a lots of good content including politics, creative content and then official coverage. Daily Motion is pretty unrestrained so expect to see some risque user generated content.
Check out Daily Motion here.
3. YouTube - If you’re in a country without official Olympic Coverage check out the YouTube China/Taiwan official Olympic Channel. If you are in a country with Olympic Coverage - check out this guy who is there and submitting material to YouTube regularly.
4. Kyte is another great resource that, similarly to Qik, allows people to stream live video from their phone (and other devices) to the web. They have 9 channels with a ton of first person content.
Check it out Kyte coverage here.
5. Flickr - Nothing beats the stunning photos of events and relevant places associated with this 2008 Summer Olympics. I highly suggest you take a sneak peak at these photos - it’s almost as good as being there.
Check out Flickr photos from the 2008 Olympics here.
Enjoy your weekend!
August 15th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Hello, Kyte is actually a media platform more so than a destination. Therefore; we are not actually hosting any channels pertaining to the Olympics rather our partners are. A great example of Olympic user engagement can be seen here from our partners at Terra. http://en.fanzone.terra.com/ Terra is asking for fans to send good vibe to their country’s athletes for the Summer Olympics 2008.