The news of the day is clearly Cisco's $3.2B acquisition of Webex. Give it half an hour and TechMeme will become useless for the rest of the day, as Cisco/Webex news will push out everything else.
But that's not what my post is about... the first news on the deal came out less then an hour ago, around 6am PST. Unaware of this, I followed my morning habit of looking at my blog visitor stats: about 3am there was an unusual number of hits, all coming from Europe, coming from the Google search result "Webex rumor". So clearly, the news leaked and people were franticly looking for information 3 hours prior to the official release.
Blog referral logs are an amazing source of information....
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