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) website. The [...]

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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 [...]

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The June 11, 2007 edition of eWeek magazine has an interesting article called “Google keeps an eye on open source.” Chris DiBona responds to a series of questions about Google’s use of open-source software, but this comment stands above the rest: Every time you use Google, you’re using a Linux machine. If that isn’t doesn’t [...]

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