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VentureBeat: CNN, Facebook win presidential inauguration live-streaming contest (kinda)

  • william · 11 months ago
    If they win we all lose.

    I think that it is very ironic that CNN an old mono directional media company and Facebook a web 2.0 closed source content sharecropping silo have teamed up on a day that we should associate with freedom and fairness.
  • Dissapointed in FB · 11 months ago
    I thing you're wrong. NPR had the best streaming option. Facebook had a wait to join up. I didn't care to chat with friends watching, just needed a quick stream to connect up.
  • Eric Eldon · 11 months ago
    I didn't have to wait to join CNN-Facebook.

    Obviously if you didn't want to chat in the first place, you wouldn't like any sort of social features, so you're making an apples-to-oranges comparison.
  • Alan Geers · 11 months ago
    CNN feed was very choppy for me.

    I watched the Ustream AP feed the whole time and it was perfect.
  • Colleen Sanders · 11 months ago
    I watched Ustream feed here in England. Well done!
  • Eric Eldon · 11 months ago
    I tried using Ustream for 2o minutes and finally gave up in favor of CNN, because Ustream was too choppy and slow.
  • Frustrated in Colorado · 11 months ago
    My college was watching the CNN video stream when it lost service 2/3's of the way through. We had to tune into msnbc to find another feed.
  • Joe · 11 months ago
    Well, I certainly was locked out. The stream was all jammed up. I got the fox stream to work for about 2 minutes, but was out of luck after that. I was even trying from Arlington, VA, right across the river.
  • Steve · 11 months ago
    WRONG: I waited 3 minutes to get on to CNN gave up and went to Yahoo and watch the Live Stream. I also went to MSNBC and it failed kept buffering. Maybe NPR was the first in that is why They gave Facebook such high marks. They will need to work on there facts based on what I am reading from other people.
  • evaid · 11 months ago
    It took a while to get in and once I did the video was horribly choppy. It was not so much a stream but more a puddle.
  • Shane · 11 months ago
    Facebook integration was very impressive! I didn't experience any issues. I also used Ustream but reverted back to Facebook because I could add and exchange commentary with my true friends!

    I was also watching CNN on TV and found a minute or so delay between the TV telecast and Facebook. Thanks to my company for approving Obama Day :)
  • pwb · 11 months ago
    The video sites still can't figure out why YouTube was so successful: video quality is not so important.
  • the_guv · 11 months ago
    Appreciate those stats...useful for a piece...

    EDITORIAL: Obama’s Inauguration Online & the Web 2.0 Generation, a Partisan Party...which is a related. Can be found...

    http://guvnr.com/web/surfing/review-obamas-inau... ... have linked those stats here

    I agree, video quality less important generally but for special event like this, is more important. I watched CNN.com, should've watched UStream!
  • Matt McMillin · 11 months ago
    I was watching ABC's live coverage on my LG Voyager with Verizon V-Cast with absolutely no problems. I didn't have any "buffering" issues or choppy video. (Sounds like a commercial, sorry)

    I was stuck at my store with no television access and the only radio station we could find that was carrying it had Rush Limbaugh commenting over the audio. I had 6 people huddled around my desk watching on my phone. We were all impressed with the quality, but after hearing all the problems there were with other online streams, I am astounded that I was able to get it at all!
  • Zimran Ahmed · 6 months ago
    Interesting