How to Watch Obama Inauguration Online

Washington is throwing a lavish $160-million party to celebrate the Obama inauguration on Tuesday. However, much as we’d like to be there and cheer for Barack Obama, it’s not going to be possible for all of us to do that. Many of us simply won’t be able to make it and many just don’t feel brave enough to stand and cheer in the subzero temperatures.

However, for those who cannot be present at the Capitol Building in person the internet provides a compelling alternative to experience the even in real time and up close.

Read on if you wish to learn how to watch the Obama inauguration online.

The Obama inauguration will be available live on the web and at the same time you can also get to view images and videos that the people present at the event will upload to social networking sites like Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.

There are many resources to watch the Obama inauguration online –

C-SPAN  has been offering detailed live webcasts of the build-up to the Obama inauguration since Saturday and will air the inauguration ceremony on Tuesday.

Livestation  is a P-2-P app that lets you get multiple perspectives on the Obama inauguration by connecting you to channels such as Al-Jazeera English, BBC World News, France 24, C-Span, etc.

Fox News and CNN will stream live webcasts of the Obama inauguration. Fox News will host a discussion on the day’s events on its Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FoxNews) while CNN will feature an on-camera live anchor to update users logged onto Facebook Connect (http://edition.cnn.com/live/) at CNN.com.

Finally we have Hulu who gave us this cool embed we’ve pasted below. Enjoy!