This past March, TechBrew partnered with Todd And to automate his popular Power 150 rank list of marketing blogs. The automation helped Todd expand his list to the international market, with nearly 350 blogs ranked on a semi-daily basis.

The Power 150 has taken off and attracted the attention of Ad Age, who has just made a deal with Todd to host the list and vastly increase its daily exposure.

First, big congrats to Todd. Well done!

Second, as part of the deal, TechBrew will release modest portions of the Power 150 code as open source, specifically the pieces which interface with 3rd-party web services. The code will all be PHP 5, and ran in production for a couple of months.

Update:   See our Popstats announcement for an overview and links to the code.