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Error: Olympics not available in China

Aug 7, 2008 00:03

This year marks the first time videos of the Olympics will be easily accessible on the Internet (well, relatively easy). NBCOlympics.com has events online streaming live with a little help from Microsoft Silverlight. If you want to watch, you do need to be inside the U.S. When I try to bring up the site here in China, I get an error saying that it's restricted to U.S. viewers only. Well, there's always YouTube right? Didn't they just announce a new Olympics Channel? Oops! That's not available in China either? Wow... Read more »

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World of Warcraft welcomes you to Beijing

Aug 4, 2008 01:56

Cheers to ChinaSmack, a very cool new blog that I just stumbled on, for this World of Warcraft rendition of the Olympic tune Beijing Welcomes You. It's somewhat less awful if you focus on the cartoonery...
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Link: Why podcasting never killed the radio star in China

Aug 3, 2008 18:51

Steven Lin's guest post over on�Ogilvy's Digital Watch addresses a question that many in the tech world may have never thought to ask. I know I didn't. Why exactly hasn't podcasting caught on in China?
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Olympic Internet: Paying more for less

Jul 31, 2008 01:47

Slashdot reports that Olympic Media Village is going to make journalists pay an amazingly high price in exchange for connecting to the Internet:

BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games) is charging a ridiculous amount of money for ADSL service: For 512/512, it
costs 7712.5 yuan (US$1,131.20); for 1M/512, it costs 9,156.25 yuan (US$1,342.95); for 2M/512, it costs a whopping 11,700 yuan (US$1,716.05).

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Google does its part for Olympic visitors

Jul 29, 2008 23:54

Navigating China if you don't have the language down pat can be an Olympic size pain in the BOCOGs. Anyone hoping to use Google Maps is usually disappointed when searching for Chinese cities. Chinese language maps were all Google had to offer in the past, leaving travelers with no other choice than to use those dreaded "paper" map thingies that we all hear our grandparents mention now and again.

Well, Google has just recently stepped up to the plate for the Olympic games, pinyin-izing (or phoeneticizing) the maps for any Chinese city where Olympic events will be held.�
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About Rick Martin

After years of honing his skills playing Shinobi on the rocky shores of Newfoundland, he moved on to become a freelance ninja. But due to a lull in the Canadian ninja market, Rick Martin teleported to Asia where he studied Chinese and the dark arts of China blogging. When he's not busy with all that stuff, he makes appearances at an international computer company where he does a little something called "work". He can also be found on Twitter and Facebook, or contact him via Email.