The few post-inaugural comments at Ustream.tv, which yesterday released to the Apple App Store its iPhone Viewing Application, were mostly complaints about the app's limitations. These presumably kept many otherwise enthusiastic users from watching the inauguration on their iPhones.

One anonymous poster said, "I'm not getting audio. I see a few other reports of this problem here. Anyone figure out what's going on?"

Others criticized the app's dependence on Wi-fi and its apparent inability to work with older iPhones.

According to Akamai, Internet usage jumped considerably during the inauguration. North American Internet traffic spiked 60 percent, the fifth highest since the site began tracking the online news load in 2005. Over 5.4 million people logged on globally per minute during the hour when Obama was sworn in and began speaking. The highest traffic recorded by Akamai occurred Nov. 4, when 8.5 million took to the Web in the wake of Obama's election victory.