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By Jenna Wortham
Live Streams: The New York Times will be live-streaming Mr. Obama's speech from its home page; video Web sites Hulu and Joost are among the other sites broadcasting Tuesday's events.
Live Tweeting: Similar
to its coverage of the presidential debates, Current TV is partnering
with micro-blogging site Twitter to showcase inaugural day musings from
the Twitter universe, in 140 characters of less. Beginning at 11:30
a.m. E.S.T., the indie media company will hand-pick selected messages,
or "tweets," and integrate the updates into the channel's broadcast. To
prevent network outages, Twitter CEO Biz Stone told The Times that the company is doubling its capacity to gear up for the event.
Flickr:
The photo-sharing social network, owned by Yahoo, will be hosting a
respite from the packed event at a nearby wine bar. Local and visiting
Flickeristas can drop in for a coffee or a glass of wine and check out
photographs from election night alongside recently snapped images from
the induction ceremony displayed in an exhibition of digital frames.
3-D Panorama: Microsoft is partnering with CNN to release a digital panorama of the event using Photosynth,
software that morphs a series photographs into a digital, 3-D panorama.
The company is soliciting professional photographs from news outlets as
well as user-generated content, snapped from cellphones and digital
cameras, for the final product.
DIY Inaugural Balls: Still waiting for an invite
to one of Washington's lavish parties to celebrate the new president?
On the off-chance you don't make it onto a VIP list, you can still
attend a party online. Gussy up your avatars and port them into one of the balls happening in Second Life and Wee World. If virtual alter egos aren't your thing, try your luck finding a nearby shindig using the official Presidential Inaugural Committee's handy Web tool.
Mobile Applications: UStream.tv, a streaming video site that lets anyone put up a broadcast, like the wriggling brood of Shiba Inu puppies
that made headlines late last year. The company recently unveiled plans
for an iPhone application that will port any of its streaming
broadcasts to the Apple device -– including the inauguration. The service also supplements live streams with a chat function so Ustreamers can chit-chat during the festivities.
In the event that you are traveling to the nation's capital for the event, the free
2009 Presidential Inauguration Guide iPhone application
is a must-have for out-of-towners. The application serves up public
transit schedules and details, locations of parking garages, free Wi-Fi
zones and a Zagat guide for the Washington area. The nifty application
will also map the current distance between the phone's owner and the
steps of the Capitol building.
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