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Entries from August 2007

TechBrew Popstats: PHP tools for popularity ranking

August 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Popstats is a just-released open-source set of PHP 5 classes that allow you to easily query one of several popularity APIs with a given URL. This code originally lived in the Power 150 (now hosted at AdAge.)
These tools can help you programmatically grab ranking and popularity information for your (or anybody else’s) [...]

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Tags: How-To · Open-Source Spotlight

Micropodcast With Your Phone and Twitter

August 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Ever wanted to do a podcast, but didn’t have a lot to say or the time/desire/skill to produce one? If you have a phone and a Twitter account, you can start a micropodcast right away in two easy steps:
1) Go to http://www.twittergram.com/phone and plug in your phone number and Twitter credentials. Note: [...]

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Tags: How-To