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Title: Is the Internet ready for Jackson's funeral? Site: www.Newsweek.com (Newsweek, Inc.) URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/205540 Description: As everyone mourns the passing of Michael Jackson as the legend he was, Internet across the globe slowed down. Websites experienced traffic levels that rendered them undesirable to use. Is the internet and website’s ready for such volume? With the boom of Smart Phones, and nearly half the North American population has internet access at home, we put the Internet to the test today. Insight Canada’s infrastructure was under heavy load after lunch today, pages were taking anywhere between 1min to 3mins to load. It was a nightmare! I quickly scrambled management and network administrators to ensure users were not using video streaming websites. After 2 hours, it started to relieve its self. |
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Michael Jackson's Online Wake
Is the Internet ready for the King of Pop's funeral?
Michael Jackson's funeral service starts at 1 pm Eastern today and you will have to try very hard not to see it: In addition to wall-to-wall coverage on the news channels, any Web site capable of live-streaming the event will be doing so (list at bottom of this post). Is the Internet ready for the coming traffic jam?
I'm betting it is. Jackson was a global icon and his funeral will purportedly be a star-studded affair. But I just don't think this will compare to the two events that have already tested the Web's capacity this year alone: Barack Obama's inauguration and news of Jackson's death.
Recall that Obama's first speech as president managed to
get most people
to stop using Google
(GOOG)–voluntarily. And Jackson's death was a news event that pretty much everyone wanted to
hear more about, at least for a couple seconds.
But on the Web at least, Jackson was
old news by last week. And
my hunch is that anyone who truly wants to watch today's event will do so on a TV.
But if you want to watch it on your laptop, try one of these outlets:
TMZ (of course)
CNN.com (partnering with Facebook again, a la the Obama event).
E! Online
ABC News
Fox News
Hulu
MySpace
CBS News
Want to watch in the company of others? Cinedigm will be screening the event, for free, at the theater chain's screens in 31 states. Details here.
© 2009 Newsweek, Inc.
