For all the possibility, neither CNN’s iReport nor NowPublic managed to get much (or any) live photos or videos from the inauguration. NowPublic was even cooperating with Qik to permit live streaming video from camera phones, but only a few posts actually made it to either site during the new President’s speech and many of those were of people viewing the event on television.

Maybe everyone was just too wrapped up in listening to a stirring speech, or maybe the data networks were jammed. We’ll check back later to see what gets posted.

UPDATE: Here’s a streaming video of the inauguration filed on Qik. It sure gives you a sense of what it must have been like to be there watching the event, standing shoulder to shoulder with over one million people.

Qik has launched a new application that will allow its users to stream video live from their cell phones to the Web without the hassle of uploading.

The software enables its users to share anything with anyone at anytime creating two way communications with video, to chat in real time to the device’s screen while the video is being broadcast.

The Qik Web page has its own social networking capabilities, including a self-serve events page, top ‘qikkers’, hot qiks and qik groups, as it tries to create a community out of its users. (more…)