The inauguration of the nation's 44th president promises to be the largest live social-networking event to date. It is expected to dwarf election night and the Super Bowl and push the edges in the ongoing experimentation with social networking.
Among the most prominent projects, CNN is integrating Facebook user status updates on CNN.com Live's streaming of the event and ABC is soliciting text messages and videos from neighborhood inauguration parties to include in its broadcast of the Tuesday night concert all in the hope of creating a national virtual inauguration ball. Social networks including Flickr and Meebo and social platform companies such as Slide and Socialcast are expecting spikes in traffic, up 60 percent from normal patterns by one estimate.
With less than 24 hours to go, the volume of micro blogging at Twitter was already beginning to overwhelm the system:
For their part, major wireless network providers have bulked up their capacity in the Washington, DC area.
In the other Washington -- Washington state -- public employees have been asked to help prevent congestion on state controlled networks on inauguration day. Instead of streaming inauguration coverage into their own cubicles, employees interested in watching the inauguration have been asked to gather in conference rooms and watch it together -- on TV.
There is no word about whether employees who watch the ceremony will be required to submit leave slips for the time.
Among the most prominent projects, CNN is integrating Facebook user status updates on CNN.com Live's streaming of the event and ABC is soliciting text messages and videos from neighborhood inauguration parties to include in its broadcast of the Tuesday night concert all in the hope of creating a national virtual inauguration ball. Social networks including Flickr and Meebo and social platform companies such as Slide and Socialcast are expecting spikes in traffic, up 60 percent from normal patterns by one estimate.
With less than 24 hours to go, the volume of micro blogging at Twitter was already beginning to overwhelm the system:
For their part, major wireless network providers have bulked up their capacity in the Washington, DC area.
In the other Washington -- Washington state -- public employees have been asked to help prevent congestion on state controlled networks on inauguration day. Instead of streaming inauguration coverage into their own cubicles, employees interested in watching the inauguration have been asked to gather in conference rooms and watch it together -- on TV.
There is no word about whether employees who watch the ceremony will be required to submit leave slips for the time.
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