This week we had 17 new APIs added to our API directory. 4 notable new entries include a third party photo sharing service for Twitter, a cloud storage API, an API for managing embeddable talking avatars, and an API for publishing photo books.
This past week 16 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 37 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Directions, Google Maps Elevation, Google OpenID, TourCMS Marketplace and Twilio SMS. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, TourCMS Marketplace and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (12 APIs, 17 mashups), Photos (5 APIs, 6 mashups) and Social (4 APIs, 9 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Bing Maps used in Flickr Shapefiles Demo
Facebook used in G4ng, PicWash Photo Retouch Service
Flickr used in Flickr Shapefiles Demo, PicWash Photo Retouch Service
Google Ajax Search used in G4ng
Google App Engine used in Google Buzz via SMS
Google Buzz used in G4ng, Google Buzz via SMS
Google Chart used in G4ng
Google Custom Search used in G4ng
Google Directions used in G4ng
Google Earth used in G4ng
Google Gears Geolocation used in G4ng
Google Maps used in G4ng, Jobs Assistant, spiggler: Tweets on Streets, Things to do Near Aviemore, Cairngorms National Park, UK Camping Map, World Cup News Map
Google Maps Data used in G4ng
Google Maps Elevation used in G4ng
Google OpenID used in G4ng
Google Picasa used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service
Google Static Maps used in G4ng
Google Translate used in G4ng
Google Visualization used in G4ng
indeed used in Common Interview Querstions
LinkedIn used in Jobs Assistant
MaxMind GeoIP used in G4ng
OpenLayers used in G4ng
OpenStreetMap used in G4ng
Photobucket used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service
Smugmug used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service
TourCMS Marketplace used in Things to do Near Aviemore, Cairngorms National Park, TourCMS Marketplace Widgets
Twilio SMS used in Speed Dial Group Messaging
Twitter used in dbrec, G4ng, spiggler: Tweets on Streets, World Cup Mashup
Weather Channel used in G4ng
Mashups of the day:
And each day there is one mashup selected to be Mashup of the Day. Here are last week’s winners:
Have you ever noticed how little sense the placement of zip codes make? Sequential zones are an entire city apart. Sometimes there are even zip codes wholly contained within other zip codes. It takes a visual zip code map to make sense of it. Huge.info has just such a map using an interactive Google Map and custom overlay images.
LinkedIn, the social network for business, has announced an enhanced version of its People Search API. While the V1 Search API contained some powerful and easy-to-use features, the latest additions for the new API are quite impressive.
What’s that song? If you’re out and about, you might reach for your mobile phone’s “name that tune” app, such as Shazam on iPhone. But if you’re at your PC, it can be as easy as clicking over to the Audiggle app, which reports on sound from video, internet radio, or anything passing audio to your speakers.
The company that released PageRank for Twitter has added several new calls to its API. Your applications can now build on top of the analysis from “big data” company InfoChimps–and it’s free for limited usage. The sorts of tools we’ve seen in popular Twitter mashups are now part of the InfoChimps collection of Twitter API calls.
Are you ready to let everyone know the expert you are? Start by answering questions on Twitter using Replyz, a new service built on top of the Twitter API. It looks for common question phrases and extracts those tweets to its site. That way, the question can go beyond someone’s Twitter followers.
This past week 12 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 23 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Drawloop, Face.com, Google Buzz, iTunes and iTunes Connect, Songkick, Spotify Metadata and Your Mapper API. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Google Maps and Spotify Metadata. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (5 APIs, 7 mashups), Photos (4 APIs, 4 mashups) and Social (3 APIs, 3 mashups).
The Health team at Bing used public data to create a Health Map application (requires Silverlight) that lets users visualize a number of health indicators, such as obesity and premature births, by U.S. county.
Twitter recently announced what developers have been expecting since at least its Chirp conference. Links posted to Twitter will soon be passed through the company’s own link shortener, t.co. It could be bad news for other services built to fill the link shortening need, such as Bit.ly (our Bit.ly API profile).
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