Earlier yesterday while stumbling across an article on the CNN Money site, I noticed that the comments were now exclusively powered through Facebook Connect. While there are no signs that this will become a broader trend for all of CNN, this is definitely a major move for one of the worlds largest global news organizations. One interesting thing to note is that this is for articles that previously didn’t have an embedded commenting feature.
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CNN’s partnership with Facebook worked really well for President Obama’s inauguration, so the two are back at it for the coverage of President Obama’s State of the Union coverage and President Obama’s Address to Congress. In the same way live coverage was supplemented with Facebook users’ streaming status updates during the inauguration, so too will Facebook users have the combined and social experience for the State of the Union. RSVP here.
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There’s been a bunch of buzz about tonight’s NBA All-Star game which TNT was streaming live on their website. Facebook even sent out a message to all the media members tonight notifying them of the launch of their live streaming widget that is embedded next to the live video feed. Unfortunately TNT’s NBA site doesn’t appear to be working, but one thing that is working perfectly is the live feed widget that I wrote about back in January.
Initially I thought it was working because Facebook had “re-enabled” it for the All-Star game. David-Benjamin Brakha pointed out to me that the live feed widget that is currently accessible again is for the CNN application. Most likely, someone at Facebook accidentally enabled more then one live feed widget when the TNT stream when live. Whatever the reason for it returning, I would imagine that it will be disabled within hours.
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When Facebook and CNN partnered for inauguration coverage it was a historic moment for both CNN and Facebook. CNN for the first time had tens of millions of users stream a historic moment online rather than tune into their television. For Facebook, this was the largest implementation of Facebook Connect ever. According to and article posted by Randi Zuckerberg yesterday afternoon, the site received over 2 million status updates through the CNN.com live Facebook feed.
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The inauguration of Barack Obama has already brought about significant change in this country and Facebook in partnership with CNN were able to cover the inauguration in its entirety. Millions of people logged in to share the experience with their friends around the globe. As of 1:15 pm Eastern, Facebook and CNN posted some impressive results:
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CNN and Facebook are partnering for coverage of the upcoming inauguration. Facebook user statuses will be updated with streaming updates of Obama’s inaguration. Facebook users will be able to log in to CNN.com Live through Facebook Connect and update their statuses while watching the live stream on January 20th.
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