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By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:01 +0000

We saw a total failure of our networks. My tech-unsavvy colleagues blamed me.

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Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:00:57 +0000

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By: January 20, 2009 | next media update

January 20, 2009 | next media update — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:27:52 +0000

[...] Web Sites Scale Up for Inauguration Traffic2 DATA CENTER KNOWLEDGE Kakul Srivastava, general manager of Flickr, said that he expects a healthy jump from its daily average of 3 million photos and videos uploaded to the service. Slide, the largest maker of widgets for social networks, said it expects a 60 percent spike in the use of its SuperPoke application. It’s also likely to be a huge day for Facebook, which has become the web’s largest photo sharing site, hosting with more than 10 billion photos. Twitter is doubling its capacity to manage an expected surge in activity. But co-founder Biz Stone said he is not expecting the same kind of traffic spikes as on Election Night, when the site was flooded with 10 times the normal traffic. “We’re always working to increase reliability but yes, the inauguration puts a finer point on it,” Stone told ZDNet. “During massively shared events we normally see an increase in timeline views and tweets per second. Last week we significantly boosted performance with both hardware and software optimization.” Source> [...]

By: Technology Blog » Blog Archive » Interactive Inauguration of Obama Is Just the Beginning

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:30:27 +0000

[...] choppy at times, but proved it could handle the traffic throughout the event. A number of top sites scaled up to prepare for the huge influx of viewers in anticipation of crashes and [...]

By: News Sites Struggle to Stream Obama Video - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

News Sites Struggle to Stream Obama Video - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:31:03 +0000

[...] up to the inauguration, sites such as Facebook and Twitter braced for spikes in demand. Facebook teamed up with CNN.com to put a stream of personal status updates [...]

By: Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration? | CloudAve

Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration? | CloudAve — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:47:03 +0000

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By: On this day… | Aggie Webmasters

On this day… | Aggie Webmasters — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:05:32 +0000

[...] this day… January 20th, 2009 by chiv Being that today is the inauguration, here’s an interesting article from Data Center Knowledge about Web site and service scaling because of today’s activities and festivities. What is [...]