Slideshow of the Day: Tag080808
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Slideshow of the Day again! Yes! It is for the Day of the opening ceremonies of Beijing Olympic Games.
The slideshow is for the #080808 Twitter campaign, started by Chinese Twitter users. #080808 means 08/08/08, the opening day of Beijing Olympic Games 2008.The official weblog of this campaign:http://tag080808.com
If you want to know the whole story, then read a article from New York Times:
Chinese Tweeters Celebrate Olympics With #080808
Using “#080808″ (pronounced “tag 080808″), a symbol for the date of the Olympics opening day, August 8, 2008, is “just for fun, a way to ‘write down’ the day,” said Steven Lin, one of the movement’s co-founders, who works for official Olympic Web site Sohu.com as a project manager.
Founded by Lin and two other Internet industry managers, they conceived of the idea on Wednesday, and only began propagating it on Thursday. Lin, who tweets as “flypig,” said they chose #080808 for a number of reasons but for one above all others: it was easy to type, including on a cell phone.
Although the number of #080808 tweeters is not known, a new one is being added about every half-second, as of noon in Beijing local time. Applications are now being written for the movement, including an Adobe Photoshop overlay, allowing users to superimpose the slogan over their Twitter avatars.
read full article.
The twitter campaign expands to other web2.0 communities. Junyu who is working for Google China created an great mash-up page. (http://tag080808.appspot.com/)
Web 2.0 unites around #080808 campaign by Danwei
The campaign is not limited to Twitter. The #080808 tag can be used to tag any online content (Flickr pics, YouTube videos, text blog postings, Technorati / Google Blogsearch, etc.). Click here for a mash-up Web site created by Junyu Wang that aggregates all the latest multimedia postings tagged “#080808″ into a single, simple interface.
