Comments on: The Inauguration: Most User-generated Content Ever? http://gigaom.com/2009/01/20/the-inauguration-most-ugc-content-ever/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bill Fleig http://gigaom.com/2009/01/20/the-inauguration-most-ugc-content-ever/#comment-158371 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:09:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35929#comment-158371 The photosynth product is very cool and enabled a potentially valuable recording of the historic moment.

In a different kind of presidential user-generated content, a much more intimate site launched on inauguration day: http://www.realchangestories.com

The site’s aim is not a display of technical power. It is a display of unlikely individual connections formed during the campaign and in the kind of civic/community service that president Obama is fostering.

RealChangeStories.com is a moderated story sharing site featuring personal accounts of people’s connections with total strangers during the course of the Obama campaign and while taking part in community service efforts. The goal is to inspire people to see the power and worth of stepping outside of their lives and engaging with people over issues directly.

Often the bulk of the coverage in this area is on the issues, the policies, the politics, the winning and the losing. RealChangeStories.com focuses on the personal and the intimate side of getting involved. In ways both large and small, engaging outside of one’s comfort zone can be a life-changing, perspective-shifting experience. RealChangeStories.com was created to help preserve and share these stories for the change they represent and the future they will inspire.

It’s not so whiz-bang, but the individual impact of each story has the potential to ripple out in more meaningful ways.

]]> By: Vic Ugo http://gigaom.com/2009/01/20/the-inauguration-most-ugc-content-ever/#comment-158370 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:01:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35929#comment-158370 Now, after this historic event the world as a whole will and infact has changed, the real change like Obama preached it.
Vic – Germany.

]]> By: Pennsylvania » Processing the Inauguration in the Cloud http://gigaom.com/2009/01/20/the-inauguration-most-ugc-content-ever/#comment-158369 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:35:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35929#comment-158369 [...] The Inauguration: Most User-generated Content Ever? [...]

]]> By: Is the Web Breaking Under the Inaugural Strain? http://gigaom.com/2009/01/20/the-inauguration-most-ugc-content-ever/#comment-158368 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:27:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=35929#comment-158368 [...] Limelight Networks, a content delivery network, says that so far this morning it has topped over 250 gigabytes per second of network traffic (it can handle up to 2 terabytes per second). Akamai notes that daily media streams are up by 596 percent from the usual daily average so far today. We’ll get more data later today on total web traffic from the core network providers, as well as mobile operators currently fielding thousands of text messages, uploads of photos and live streams. [...]

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