Watch the Olympics from your mobile screen ...


    Less than a month is left before the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics. (the games will start on August 8, 2008) To be honest, these games probably threaten to become the most uninitiated in terms of the media, and speaking of the mobile Internet, at the moment I have found just a few sites that will help to keep abreast of all Olympic affairs wherever you are. Perhaps we will start from the official website of the Olympics - Beijing2008.cn , which has a version for mobile phones and PDAs (naturally in English - wap.beijing2008.cn/pams/s.do?p=507&lo=en The site is designed in the style of "all in one ", News, wallpapers for free download, a hymn, etc. Moreover, if you compare with the WAP version of the official website of the Sochi Olympics in 2014 - wap.sochi2014.comthen the structure of the sites are very similar, which means that the requirement for them is set "from above" and common to all resources. On the site you can find relevant. information on the Olympic Games, you can also find maps of cities in which competitions will be held, information for visitors, as well as a navigator for Olympic facilities. But, unfortunately, this feature will be available only to owners of gadgets based on Windows Mobile.



    The NBC company, which has exclusive rights to broadcast broadcasting (radio, TV) of the Beijing Olympic Games, and naturally, NBC launched the WEB and WAP (Mobile) version of the site, where you can watch video broadcasts or excerpts from the competition - mobile.nbcolympics.com Also on the site you can find information about competitions, interesting facts about the games, as well as a biography of most participants in the Olympic Games, but unfortunately, this information will be relevant only for residents of the United States, or for those interested in sports in the United States. The site itself and all content is adapted for most mobile terminals and you should have no problems viewing this resource and receiving information content.

    Mainstream news, perhaps on one of the best news resources - The New York Times, which also prepared a mobile version of its resource on which you can find a lot of information on the subject of the Olympics - mobile.nytimes.com/section?s=84

    MSN also does not lag behind with its mobile version of the page dedicated to the Olympics falls into this list - msnbc.msn.com/id/24110220


    Yahoo's Olympic Games website has a large clock that shows the countdown to the start of the Olympic Games. Yahoo’s mobile site differs from most sites of similar subjects in that the main concentration of the site from Yahoo is still news, a lot of news, and of course the results of the competition. On the site in real time you can track the results of the qualifying competitions of the US national teams (unfortunately only the USA), and in the future monitor all the results of the Olympic Games, with the update period set to 1 minute. Thus, every minute the latest news and information on the results appear on the site.
    By the way, Yahoo's mobile portal was created on CSM by German company NetBiscuitswhich is known for its CMS mobile sites. The color scheme of the Olympic portal Yahoo is very similar to the new mobile version of pratal, which is now under testing.


    Leaving aside many small sites and pages dedicated to the Olympics, I could not ignore the mobile portal from the BBC.

    So what about the portal? The portal has many articles and news dedicated not only to the Olympics, but to sports in general - http://news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_sport/olympicsport/in addition, on the portal you will find many sections devoted to various Olympic sports. A huge plus of this site is that not only US news is reviewed and reviewed, but also world sports news. In addition to reading news and articles, you can chat with the same sports fans in a special forum created for users of mobile Internet. (By the way, the forum is still discussing soccer (soccer) and the performance of the Russian team at the 2008 European Championship)

    Unfortunately, all the resources found and cited in this article are English-speaking, in the process of preparing the material no more worthy resource was found that could be called the “mobile portal”. I hope that in the near future there will be a resource that will not only be content-entertaining in nature, but also carry an information load on visitors. It remains only to wait.

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