Beijing Olympics begin
The number 8 is extremely lucky in china, and it is no coincidence that the Beijing Olympics start on the 08/08/08. In keeping with this 08 theme, a group of industrious Chinese bloggers at 8:08am this morning released a twitter campaign named #080808 to tag all Olympic news from around the globe. All you have to do is tag any social media post with the #080808 tag and you can join in the fun. Take a look at this mashup one of Google China’s developers hacked together to bring all of the tagged technologies together. Even more amazing is that he developed the mashup in only 6 hours…
Currently if you search for #080808, you can see a new #080808 tweet coming up every 0.5 seconds!
Update: Google has just launched a Olympic landing page that includes a map of medals, Youtube video highlights and news headlines.
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