Six High-Tech Ways to Enjoy the 2010 Olympics

Since the Olympics are taking place in 2010, they are required by iron-clad law to involve Twitter in some way. NBC has set up a page called “Olympic Pulse” as a sort of social networking hub, complete with Twitter feeds from athletes, who apparently have a spare moment to type out their thoughts while not training rigorously.

“We saw more blogging and such in Beijing, but Twitter and Facebook as sources of information have really taken off since those Games,” says Jeremy Littau, assistant professor of journalism at Lehigh University. “The direct access to athlete voices (as well as the potential for livetweeting) is tremendous and adds another layer of live coverage and access that we normally would just get with television. A fanatic of the Games probably will get a richer experience than they’ve ever had if they choose to tap into it.”

Many of the events at the Olympics won’t even be happening in Vancouver; they take place in Whistler, nearly 80 miles away. Snowbus provides transport from the city to the resort; but during that hour and a half when you’re sitting on the bus, will you be forced offline? What if Apollo Ohno updates his Twitter feed — will you only learn of it 90 minutes later? Fear not! In Motion Technology and Bell Canada are working together to make sure that sweet, sweet Wi-Fi flows into your computer.

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