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		fleaflicker on Dec 19, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CTO's View on Clickpass Acquisition that uniques graph is deceptive. any company who's main product is a widget (or involves embeddable javascript) will reflect the traffic of its partner sites. for example i've never used clickpass but i contribute to their traffic every single time i visit this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/login

immad on Dec 19, 2008 [–]

True. I did point that out in the blog post. Widget views are still one metric for success.

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