OBAMA

If you missed yesterday's inauguration then you FAIL!

Here's some interesting info from yesterday from Cynopsis Digital:

Combining live television with the interactivity of the web proved to be a powerful lure for two major media and web brands yesterday. CNN.com's live streaming application, which was accompanied by a Facebook widget that allowed members to view comments from their peanut gallery of friends, set web traffic records yesterday serving a total of 18.8 million total online viewers as of 1 pm ET. (This shattered CNN's previous record of 5.3 million streams set on Election Day.) CNN served more than 1.3 million concurrent live streams just as President Obama began his address. This nearly doubled the streaming output of YouTube Live back in November of approximately 700,000 concurrent viewers as measured by Akamai, believed to be the previous industry high water mark. Facebook averaged more than 4,000 status updates per hour Tuesday morning, peaking at 8,500 updates/minute during the President's speech. Meanwhile Twitter, which survived without any major outages, saw 5x its normal tweet rate.

President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address


Barack and Michelle Obama's "First Dance" at the Neighborhood Ball


Dr. Joseph Lowery delivers Inauguration Benediction for Barack Obama


Interesting Links:
-WhiteHouse.gov - check out the redesigned site
-International Reaction to the Inauguration - Huffington Post
-Hulu's Obama Page