Is it CNN or is it Facebook? To quote the inimitable Bo Jackson, "Both."
It's a cool mashup of CNN's video coverage of the inauguration with all your friends' simaltaneous discussion in a live forum. Apparently the idea went over fairly well as the site was maxed out on user-spots shortly before the ceremony started. It's been unmashed again now, but bookmark the link for the next memorable event that comes up.
It was a good day for Twitter too. The growing deluge of the world's most transient blog posts had about five times the normal amount of "tweets per second" during the ceremonies. Of course, depending on who's in your "following" list, these might be anything from, "I just ate a bagel" to "Watch my new life-coaching video." But here's a new twist on it - again with an interesting mashup. Yahoo! has gotten together with the folks at Twitter to create "Tweetnews," which matches up the latest headlines and their sources with the related "tweets." This adds a bit of authenticity to the frivolity (and immediacy) of newsflashes on Twitter with a measure of mainstream corroboration.
Remember when the future was in plastics? Now it's in mashups.
