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Sleep like a pro: Pods given to data center workers for Olympics
Looks like some London data-center employees are going to have a server slumber-party during the Olympics this summer. Podtime has been brought on to supply “sleeping tubes” so workers can avoid the...
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The Olympic Village has finally arrived on the web
If you’re an Olympics-loving web fiend, you’d better sit down: The athletes of the Olympics have finally come together to create a sort of Olympic Village on the web. The Olympic Athletes Hub will...
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NBC Sports to live stream 2,500 hours of the Olympics online
Sports are best when watched live, so it’s fortunate that NBC’s coverage at the London 2012 Olympics will include live streaming video of all 32 sports online. The broadcaster, which launched its...
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Olympic athletes pepper Foursquare with special tips and a new badge
Building up to the summer games in London, the Olympics has partnered with Foursquare to bring fans and athletes closer together, almost literally. The partnership means that fans will start to see a...
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GE partners with Facebook, launches HealthyShare app as part of Olympics push
As a partner of the Olympic Games, General Electric has an active interest in promoting the upcoming be-all, end-all athletic competition. That explains why the appliance manufacturer has partnered...
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How Bleacher Report is preparing for Olympic-sized web traffic
Bleacher Report is the third-most visited sports website in the U.S., behind massive brands ESPN and Yahoo Sports (both backed by huge corporations). You don’t get to millions of monthly visitors and...
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IOC goes for social gold with improved Olympics hub and official Instagram,...
Not content to leave the social media-ization of this summer’s Olympic Games in London to partners, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has improved its social portal to give fans more access to...
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Twitter-based Olympic cheer meter reveals who’s winning … on the sofas of the...
London 2012 starts today, and many of us will be glued to screens both large and small for the next 16 days. But while we’re watching, we’re probably also tweeting: cheering our teams and our stars....
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Twitter launches its official Olympics page: Real-time updates & pics
They’re calling this year’s Olympic games the first to be significantly merged with social media, so it makes sense that Twitter is promoting a new page full of tweets and pictures about and from the...
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Time to tune in: the Olympics will be live-streamed in HD on YouTube
“For the first time in history, the Summer Games will be live-streamed in HD through YouTube.” And the crowd went wild! On the YouTube company blog today, we read that the summer games in London are...
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Latest Olympics tech update: Aussies choking, French stumbling, but the USA...
If you’re reading from down under, relax. Ditto to those swathed in red, white, and blue. No Olympic gold medals have been handed out yet. At least, not for long jump, shotput, or table tennis. But...
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Olympic fail: Officials tell crowd not to tweet or text during events
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Olympic committee organizers are blaming the crowds of people in attendance for failed television coverage of the cycling event today. So,...
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Diss NBC, get suspended on Twitter?
What’s private, and what is public? That’s the question that will determine whether you agree with Twitter’s decision to suspend Guy Adams’ account. Guy Adams is a writer for the UK news agency The...
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A post about NBC’s Olympics coverage that NBC might agree with
NBC has been getting a lot of flak on social networks lately for its handling of the Olympics. Because of the time difference between the United States and London, most of the high-profile events are...
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Twitter: you crossed the line
Yesterday Twitter suspended UK journalist Guy Adam’s account for tweeting negatively about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics, including tweeting an email address of the NBC executive in charge. Today...
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NBC hater Guy Adam’s Twitter account re-instated
Wow, that was quick. Guy Adams, the UK journalist whose unhappy tweets about NBC’s Olympics coverage in the U.S. got him banned from Twitter, is back. The account suspension unleashed a tsunami of...
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Twitter on NBCgate: we screwed up (partially)
Twitter has taken the extraordinary step of kinda sorta partially apologizing on its blog for taking down UK journalist Guy Adams’ Twitter account. Even more significantly, the company’s top lawyer...
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How to watch the Olympics online in the U.S., quick, dirty, and cheap
Nerdy America, are you starved for Olympics coverage? We’ve got your back: Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how you can watch the Olympics online from the U.S. for free or for cheap, zero technical...
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Olympics could be playing havoc with Netflix streaming activity
Video rental service Netflix might be experiencing up to a 25 percent drop in streaming usage activity in the U.S., according to research conducted by Procera. If true, the lowered activity wouldn’t...
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Hold up, Olympics may have actually boosted Netflix streaming activity
Contrary to recent reports, streaming activity for video rental service Netflix may not have dropped due to the 2012 London Olympics. In fact, the service may even have experienced a slight boost,...
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