Inaugural

• On the inauguration: President Barack Obama's "muscular, clear" rhetoric, his definition of "a progressive agenda," was, predictably, a much-tweeted-about do. Twitter's @gov team offers these statistics:

  11:21a - 14,062 TPM - President Obama Arrives and is Seated
  11:53a - 24,760 TPM - Oath of Office / Start of Speech ("Freedom is a gift from God.")
  12:08p - 27,795 TPM - "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle...name calling as a substitute for debate"

  Total Volume during official ceremony (11:27a - 12:34p): 1.1 Million Tweets
  Total Volume since 6a (as of 1:00p): 2 Million Tweets

  The numbers themselves don't mean much. But they do reaffirm that the online kibitzing crowd is growing larger by the day — crowding sages like the New Yorker's David Remnick in the market for what @FakeJeffJarvis might call mindspace, or brainroom, or something. Maybe that's why a guy who edits one of the most serious magazines for America's serious people, delivering his notes on the second inauguration of the country's 44th president, felt the need to lead with Michelle Obama's purple gloves and Antonin Scalia's fabulous hat?

• Countless phones and cameras captured images of the First Couple — even their daughters, Malia and Sasha, got in on the act and Instagrammed (probably-we-don't-know) their parents with their phones.

  They were also caught apparently urging Pete Souza to grab a shot of Obama looking out over the Capitol one last time. Others taking pictures included House Whip Kevin McCarthy — the Republican who paused to get a picture with Beyoncé and Jay-Z — and Rep. Pete King, who snapped the couple from afar.

• One video that went viral appeared to show Michelle Obama rolling her eyes at a comment from John Boehner.

• The White House live-tweeted Obama's speech and also retweeted comments from others @BarackObama.com was also live-tweeting lines from his speech, and retweeted a post from Buzzfeed. According to Mathew Ingram, his most retweeted post was his comments about "gay brothers and sisters." The most tweets occurred when Obama said "We cannot mistake ... name calling as a substitute for debate," according to Twitter.

• Some including Senator Claire McCaskill complained about network problems during the Inauguration ceremony. She had also predicted on Twitter that Justice Scalia would once again be wearing an unusual hat, which Buzzfeed headlined as "How Every Senator Should Use Social Media."

• The technology industry welcomed the themes of Obama's speech, the Hill reported. In his speech Obama emphasized the importance of investing in "networks," harnessing "technology to remake our government," and welcoming immigrant students and engineers.

• An email from BarackObama.com went out just moments after Obama had taken his oath -- with one of the first recipients spotting it at 12:37 p.m.

• Quartz noted that Chinese Internet users appeared to be confused by the role of the Bible in the Inauguration ceremony.

• The techPresident take: Given enough eyeballs, all GIFs are shallow ...

Around the web

• What makes a viral cause? In a techPresident podcast, Micah Sifry and Nick Judd discuss politics on the Internet in the year of SOPA/PIPA. And they end with a question: What makes in issue into something that will carry on the Internet? Join the discussion with the hashtag #pdchat.

• The Obama campaign officially announced its transformation into Organizing for Action. As the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and Buzzfeed met the plan with a mix of new details and speculation, Executive Director Jon Carson outlined next steps in a video.

• President Obama has appointed Google Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf to the National Science Board.

• Orin Kerr offered some amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

• On Internet Freedom Day, Cnet and the Electronic Frontier Foundation looked ahead to future Internet policy battles.

• Talking Points Memo and Torrentfreak looked back at the year of Internet activism, and Internet activists fought to keep video of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech, which is protected by copyright, online Friday.

• Kim Dotcom unveiled his new Mega service — promising privacy through client-side encryption, as ars technica, Torrentfreak and the Guardian reported.

  But is the privacy as good as advertised? Ars Technica and paidContent questioned the privacy and anonymity of the service.

• The Washington Post looked at new hires from Microsoft aimed at outreach to legislators.

• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski issued a Gigabit City Challenge to broadband providers and city and local community leaders to work on bringing gigabit Internet to at least one community in each of the fifty states by 2015, Fast Company noted.

• The New York Times reported on how negative Amazon reviews are increasingly being used as weapons by groups who oppose certain books for any kind of reason.

• The Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University has created an interactive map looking at the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the New York/New Jersey area.

• Dave Whiteland from mySociety explained the applicability of the Open311 API.

International

• The German Pirate Party saw its first state loss in regional elections in Lower Saxony. Der Spiegel called the result a "massive setback." Die Welt and the Sueddeutsche Zeitung attributed their loss to the party's internal disputes. But blogger "senSATZionell" suggested that the success of the Pirates in the other states had to do with the clearer and more settled majority situation of the other larger parties in those states, providing more room for voters to vote for the Pirates. The competition in Lower Saxony between the Social Democrats, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party was more intense and close. He suggests that the result does not predict the outcome of the vote nationally later this year.

• Al Jazeera produced an interactive of a survey it conducted via SMS of people in Mali, asking them how they felt about the French military.

• Eric Schmidt has posted about his trip to North Korea, but it is his daughter's impressions that have been gaining attention, according to Marketing Land.

• France is proposing a tax on the use of digital data, and Jacob Albert argues there is a positive aspect to the plan.

• The Pirate Party has gained official status in Australia.

• Britain recently launched a genome database of patients suffering from cancer and other rare diseases.