The Spread of A Story

February 22nd, 2007

I wanted to blog about Google Apps Permier Edition (GAPE), but after seeing it mentioned on so many other sites, I had a better idea. Instead of talking about GAPE, let’s look at how a news story spreads across the internet.

• Feb 18th - ZDnet talks about the possibility of the product
• 10:00 pm Yesterday - Google Blogoscoped mentions the feature is coming.
• 1:30 am - Google officially launches Google Apps Premier Edition
• 2:00 am - First mention of it by bloggers on blogspot
• 6:00 am - Robert Scoble mentions it
• 9:50 am - Search Engine Land carries the story
• 10:00 am - Slashdot has picked up the story
• 11:00 am - Techdirt replies with an editorial about Google Apps competing with Microsoft.
• 11:11 am - News.com publishes their version of the story

Who’s next? Wired? Fark? Digg** Where are you guys at?

* - Some of these times are estimates based on Google News finding the story.
** - The story has made it to Digg, but only in the upcoming, and only had a handful of diggs at the time of this writing - not significant enough to count as “on digg”.

Update: As predicted, Wired chimed in with the story late at 11:52 am.

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