Michael Jackson's service drew, at its peak, about 2.8 million video and audio streams through the network of content middleman Akamai, versus around 350,000 on a normal day. It was almost entirely Americans watching; apparently the rest of the world was more interested in nuclear disarmament or mass ethnic uprising or whatever.

Back in the U.S., Facebook reported it was handling 6,000 status updates per minute, fueled by more than 300,000 viewers on a joint CNN/Facebook video console. Jackson chatter dominated and slowed Twitter.

In unrelated news, underemployment just pushed the average U.S. workweek to a record low of 33 hours while the jobless rate reached 9.5 percent.

Some implications up there for the Valleywag Flip Trifecta — send in your buyout trifecta before Odeo sells and it's too late!

Pick the next three sellouts in the Flip trifecta.
Google snack rooms: fun until the free chips get your keyboard all greasy.
Google's power couple finally get the attention they deserve.
Mari and Larry's new loves get way more attention than they deserve.
The digerati go glitterati at the Valleywag launch party.
A Yahooer rides the short bus: "We've got a bus too."
Party photos of the rich and famous: Classic Valley candids.
Huckabees star Jason Schwartzman is dot-commer Kevin Rose in Digg: the movie.
With a billion dollars, Larry Ellison made his accountant cry.

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