Obama's inauguration shakes the Web

		January 24, 2009

	Inauguration pushes streaming, the social Web Short of election night last year, this week's inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama pushed the limits, and expectations of various Web services. This includes the White House's own Web site, which changed hands before former U.S. President George W. Bush had even left office. People watching the show from work also set the record for the most simultaneous streaming-video viewers in the Web's history. Our very own Caroline McCarthy was keeping an eye on social networks and services like Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook to see what people were saying as the event was happening--and managed to track down many small and interesting tidbits that were overlooked by major news outlets. Click here to read all of our inauguration coverage Josh Lowensohn Associate Editor, Webware.com New on Webware.com Is Google's Web drive coming soon? Posted by Stephen Shankland Google already offers online storage with Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, and any number of other services. The question is whether the company sees merit to a general-purpose file repository. Hidden menu options in the company's software, along with hosted internal documents show that this mythical storage beast could be right around the corner.  Read more  Manage your money on the Web Posted by Don Reisinger Managing your money online has become much easier with the help of services that monitor your bank accounts and other financial information. We've put together five sites that do a fine job of providing information and data to help you make more informed financial decisions.  Read more  AOL Mail gets plug-ins for Google and Yahoo mail Posted by Rafe Needleman AOL has a new feature on its AOL Mail product: a plug-in architecture that lets users select from a library of mini-apps they can display in the right-hand sidebar of their AOL Mail session. Included are widgets that let you see your GMail and Yahoo Mail in-boxes. This means you can use AOL Mail to keep tabs on messages coming at you from other sources, which could be sort of cool.  Read more  Four places that import Google Notebooks Posted by Josh Lowensohn Are you a Google Notebook user who wants to jettison your work to another service? Good news, there are a handful of places that let you move over all your Google Notebooks with relative ease. We rounded up four of the latest ones that let you do it right from your browser.  Read more  New wiki-style database for politicians Posted by Rafe Needleman Who Runs Gov is a new wiki, powered by MindTouch. Registered users can edit the pages, but changes don't go live until the site's staffers approve the edits. Also, subjects of Who Runs Gov profile pages (or their staff) will be able to submit their own profile information for inclusion on pages about them, a fundamental difference from Wikipedia, where you're not supposed to write about yourself.  Read more  Chrome corner What this Firefox user misses about Chrome Posted by Stephen Shankland Call me fickle, but I switched my default browser back to Firefox for the time being. In doing so, I discovered the features I really miss about Chrome. Why did I switch back so soon after lavishing praise on Google's open-source Web browser? Guess what--it's not as stable.  Read more  Sweep up after Google Chrome Posted by Jessica Dolcourt CCleaner reached deep into Chrome, dumping the download history and saved form information in addition to cookies, Internet history, and Internet cache. Of course, Internet history has become more virtue than vice as a searching time-saver. This tool lets you selectively edit what parts you want to get rid of.  Read more    Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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