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Global Olympic Blog Project

 This past week in the string of posts about the book coming out, I've been stockpiling ideas for "real" blog posts and wanting to write about them more and more. Thankfully now that I launched the Personality Matters blog, I will post most of the updates about the book there and refocus on marketing strategy and insights here. I can't promise I won't share the occasional post about the book ...

IOC Issues New Internet Rules

The International Olympic Committee has issued updated rules for new media covering the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.The rules will allow media organizations to use their own Web sites to host written and photographic coverage of the games if it is for normal journalistic and editorial use. "The Internet is an important medium for the communication and promotion of sport and the Olympic Movement," the IOC said in the guidelines.

Beijing Halts Sale Of Olympic Tickets

Ticket sales for next year's Olympic Games in Beijing were temporarily suspended Tuesday for a week after the ticketing system crashed due to heavy demand by Chinese sports fans.

Chinese Virtual Economy A Threat To Middleman

The Middleman may never be terminated, but he is cruisin' for a bruisin' in the digital age. The latest assault will come, surprisingly, from China, as the government unveils plans to produce a 3D virtual world that allows consumers to order directly from the manufacturer.

Google Caught In Name Game - Again

In Germany, Google’s already lost its hold on the term “Gmail”; now Beijing Guge Science and Technology has challenged the company’s right to use the Chinese version of “Google” itself.

Google Prompts MBD Speculation

What is MBD? Why is it in Google's robots.txt file? Who reads Google's robots.txt file enough to notice this? Where can you find the answer?

Beijing Backs out of Microsoft Contract

An order for Microsoft software was cancelled by Beijing's municipal government after complaints that local governments do not support software developed domestically.