18 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Google, GovTrack.us, LyricsFly, OpenSocial, and YouTube

John Musser, May 7th, 2010

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This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 18 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include billomat, Infosniper.net and mite. The most often used APIs this week are Amazon EC2, Google Maps and GovTrack.us. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (3 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 8 mashups) and Search (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

 Amazon EC2 used in HIT Map Blog, Starbucks Map

 Amazon eCommerce used in Sing And Study

 Amazon S3 used in HIT Map Blog

 billomat used in Invoicing Time Entries From Mite via Billomat

 Google AJAX Language used in Sing And Study

 Google Ajax Search used in HIT Map Blog

 Google Custom Search used in Lite News

 Google Maps used in 2010 Formula One Map, HIT Map Blog, Local Kite Spots, Ping Pong Map, Radarvirtuel, Stadium Find

 Google Maps Flash used in Starbucks Map

 Google Static Maps used in HIT Map Blog

 GovTrack.us used in Proud Democrat iPhone app, Proud Republican iPhone app

 Infosniper.net used in Infosniper IP on World Map

 Lyricsfly used in Learn English online with songs, Sing And Study

 mite used in Invoicing Time Entries From Mite via Billomat

 OpenSocial used in HIT Map Blog

 Orkut used in HIT Map Blog

 Twitter used in HIT Map Blog, User Trends in Twitter

 YouTube used in Sing And Study

Mashups of the day:
And each day there is one mashup selected to be Mashup of the Day. Here are last week’s winners:

 HIT Map Blog

 Proud Democrat iPhone app

 Radarvirtuel

 Sing And Study

 Starbucks Map

 User Trends in Twitter