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Aug 4 2008

Ways to get hooked with Beijing Olympics 2008

Asma Kaleem

Only 4 days are left in the opening of a much awaited enthusiastic game. Exhilarated Sports fans are eagerly waiting to have its scoop and are carving ways to keep themselves updated with its related news. For the people who are really excited to grab some crunchy news and want to have a live stream of all the updates despite of their busy schedule, We at StartupMeme have tried to aggregate collection of webs that will help you to keep yourself up with an event:

Updated Google Maps

Google has recently updated its Map for Beijing Olympics 2008. The brand new imagery of Beijing Olympics contains recent images that gives you a birds- eye view of the venue. Despite of bad weather, the Satellite pictures are really amazing and it would be a boon to all fans as they can have plenty pre-started information about the game.

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While you can also view all 3D buildings of the great event by installing a Google Browser plug-in with EarthSwoop. It has got images of almost every single venue of Olympics such as National Stadium, Olympics Green Tennis Court, Olympics Sports Centre Gymnasiums and the list goes on. The 3D images reflects reality and greatly eliminates falseness of an image.

Enjoy High Quality Olympics Broadcasts with Veetle

We had reviewed Veetle last week.The ravishing service allows you to watch high quality broadcasts in TV and HD quality for free with a single plug-in installation. The service is currently supporting 19 channels that includes array of Sports channels like Golf TV, Action Sports, Fox Sports Channel and the list goes on. This will really help you to have a better quality broadcast video of Olympics while having a chit chat with your friends. And yeah it will also help you to have a full access over your favourite sports channels as you don’t have to fight for a TV remote with your gf or siblings.

Online Olympics Video via NBCOlympics

You can have excited latest updates about Olympics with 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. Though the news is really exciting and will allure zillions of die-heart sport fans but at the same time is challenging enough for all NBCOlympics team especially for Microsoft’s Silverlight that will be responsible for powering site’s Web Video. It also requires a great continuous working rhythm to make scalable Web Video Streaming work.

As pointed out by VentureBeat, some similar video streaming projects were great hit of their times such as NCAA men’s college basketball tournament by CBS was one of the greatest hit of this year and people were so addicted to it that employers had started blocking that site. While MLB.tv faced an outrageous problem while streaming live baseball game.

However, NBCOlympics seems promising and we hope that it would really bring latest time to time updates for its viewers.

Beijing Olympics FriendFeed room

This is something exclusively for all users who loves social networking. Marketing Director at ZoomProspector and a Blogger Chad Catacchio, has decided to be in China to deliver live updates about the game in his self-created Olympics FriendFeed room. It is expected that he will be updating his room with latest news, pictures and live updates and this will surely fill the gap between the huge Event and Social Networking.

FriendFeed rooms are really nice to cover some exciting events and supposed to be a real source of information. As we have experienced a good outcome in past by covering Live WWDC Event through FriendFeed, Olympics coverage through FriendFeed seems to be a great hit and will be a boon to sports-iacs and FreindFeed-iacs.

Beijing Olympic Google Gadget

Though it will not give you updates about the latest happenings of Game but the countdown gadget will show you the number of days left in the opening of a great event.