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RTS intercoms at the Winter Olympics

8 Mar

LSI Online News

Canada - RTS digital matrix intercom systems were prominent at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver."We are very proud to have contributed to the success of another Olympic Games," ...

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Devo and the Winter Olympics: a match made in heaven

8 Mar

www.guardian.co.uk
The advertising industry's latest crowdsourcing wheeze took off in Vancouver
Devo – remember them? Jocko Homo. Whip It? No? Amusing US new wave outfit with plant pots on their heads talking in vaguely eugenicist terms about mankind as spud people? No? To be fair, they haven't released an album since 1990. So how did they end up opening the Winter Olympics?
Crowdsourcing. This is adland's new favourite tool – defined as taking jobs traditionally given to employees and getting anyone who happens to be online to do it for you for nothing. When Devo turned to the US arm of the hotshot London-based ad agency Mother to ask for help with their album launch this May, Mother went for a total rebrand. And why focus group those concepts? That's so Sterling Cooper. Instead, Mother New York set up a website where the rebranding project took place and a mysterious virtual agency in LA – with the creative department replaced by Devo fans and the online community. As a result, the new look Devo (similar to old look Devo except older and with blue instead of red hats) burst on to the scene. The rebrand goes further than hats, of course. The band are choosing the tracks for a new album on the same crowdsourcing principle – moving the usual bitter wrangle between drummer and guitarist over how to open the show into a bitter multinational row between anonymous haters.
But why stop there? Crowdsourcing seems to offer so much to the entire media industry. No need for TV programme ideas any more. Crowdsource your scripts. Newspapers, meanwhile, can crowdsource opinion pieces. Political parties – why create expensive ad campaigns when you can post a couple of poorly designed posters on the net and have thousands of mashups spread like wildfire until they hit the headlines all over the world? Oh, wait a minute ...
Mother's co-founder, Linus Karlsson, says: "We're testing a new model, a 'soup-to-nuts' virtual office environment, where people share ideas and unite digitally. Los Angeles seemed to be the perfect location to do this; not only is it a hard city to commute in, and where both the band and Warner Bros are located, it is also a town where it's sometimes hard to tell what's real and what's fake, what's fact and what's fiction."
Stephen Armstrong

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The Snowleopard Qualifies for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

8 Mar

j2ski.com

We were delighted to spot this on the website of the Ghana Ski Team this week…

After 4 years of heart ache, sweat and being away from his family, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong has finally qualified for the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. Kwame and the Ghana Ski Team would wish to extend their heart felt thanks to all the sponsors and partners who have made this dream a reality. Kwame is also grateful to all his friends and family who supported him throughout his campaign, especially his wife (Sena) and kids (Ellice and Jason).

Kwame in action, courtesy of The Ghana Ski Team

Best of luck from everyone here!

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When the Olympics Happened, the World Turned to Yahoo!, the No. 1 Online Destination for Winter Olympics Coverage

5 Mar

StreetInsider.com

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/When+the+Olympics+Happened%2C+the+World+Turned+to+Yahoo%21%2C+the+No.+1+Online+Destination+for+Winter+Olympics+Coverage/5412783.html for the full story.

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How Big Were Winter Olympics Online?

5 Mar

GigaOM
The recently concluded Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada were a watershed moment in the history of online video. Akamai, a Cambridge, Mass.-based content delivery network with a global footprint helped collect some of the stats about Vancouver Olympics and they are truly mind-boggling.
I had previously pointed out that NBCOlympics.com clocked 710 million page views and 46 million unique visits. In addition, NBC Olympics Mobile served up 82 million page views and 1.9 million mobile video streams. But in aggregate scheme of things, those numbers were a small part of the overall picture.
- Akamai delivered more than 5000 hours of live and on-demand video over 17 days and at peak, served more than 30 concurrent live streaming events.
- At its peak, the Akamai was streaming close to 374 Gbps of video.
- The company delivered more than 12 Petabytes (12,000 TB’s) across its Olympics customers. To give it some perspective, the Internet Archive has over 3 petabytes of data.
- On February 28, at its peak Akamai served up about 2.4 million pages per second, with a majority of traffic coming from North America followed by Europe. This could be explained by the USA-vs-Canada ice-hockey finals and the closing ceremony.
- Other continents had a passing interest in the events of the day.
For more data and information on Olympics, follow our sister blog, NewTeeVee’s Olympics coverage.
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Limited Edition Oakley Nokia N97 For The Winter Olympics

5 Mar

Ubergizmo

If you’re an Oakley and Nokia fan, you’ll be drooling over what they’ve come up with. Both companies have collaborated to churn out 200 limited edition phones for Oakley sponsored Olympians at the Vancouver Olympics. Pictured here is a Nokia N97 that’s been given the Oakley treatment, with the Oakley Thunderbird (the specially designed logo for the Vancouver Olympics) laser etched onto the back of the phone. The phone itself is loaded with exclusive Oakley team videos & photos. If you’ve managed to stop drooling, a video of it being unboxed is available after the jump.

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tarm Showlaser at the Winter Olympics

5 Mar

LSI Online News

Canada - Lasers from Germany's tarm Showlaser featured strongly at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.The organizers were keen to make the events and official ceremonies at the Games the ...

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Fit & Fun Vancouver Winter Olympics Workout

4 Mar

VideoJug

http://www.TrainerJosh.comThis is a fun workout inspired by the current 2010 winter olympics in Vancouver. These exercises in this olympics workout are themed to coincide with some of the major events going on in Vancouver right now. I thought this would be a fun idea since I know how many people are inspired by the great athletes at the winter olympics and this would be a fun way to get some workouts in.

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Zoë Gillings Winter Olympics diary: signing off from Vancouver

3 Mar

Telegraph - Sport

GB snowboarder looks ahead to London 2012 after Canada success.

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Winter Olympics 2010: Amy Williams given hero's weolcome in open bus tour of Bath

3 Mar

Telegraph - Sport

GB gold medallist Amy Williams given a hero's welcome in home city.

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