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If your on the go and cannot sit in front of the TV but you would still want to watch the State of the Union Address the first option is to head over the White House Web site . YouTube will be airing it on it's Citizentube channel. Facebook is also going to stream the event live. If you are not in front of a computer or a TV you could the White House iPhone App. "The White House App also lets users stay up to date with the White House Blog," Cole said, and will provide on-demand video of White House events . "In the coming weeks, we?ll also launch mobile.WhiteHouse.gov , a mobile-ready version of WhiteHouse.gov that is optimized for any Internet-enabled mobile device , including many other phones," he added. Obama relied heavily on the Internet during his presidential campaign for organizing, fundraising and communicating and has created MySpace and Facebook pages and a Twitter feed since entering the White House. An original post by Sociolatte