36 APIs Used in 7 Days: Quora, PicPlz, Amazon, Foursquare and Facebook

Adam DuVander, February 19th, 2011

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This past week 25 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 36 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AgentRank, Amazon RDS Relational Database Service, Burstn, Facebook Social Plugins, Foxrate, Google Gmail OAuth, Google Prediction, Instapaper, Loxcel, PicPlz, Quora, SendGrid, Snapr and Twitter Streaming. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (5 APIs, 5 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 9 mashups) and Database (3 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

 AgentRank used in AgentRank for WordPress, Real Estate Agents for Android

 Amazon EC2 used in Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 Amazon RDS Relational Database Service used in Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 Burstn used in BadgePlz

 COLOURlovers used in Color Pal

 Facebook Graph used in Facebook Spectrum

 Facebook Social Plugins used in Facebook Spectrum

 Foursquare used in NodeNock

 Foxrate used in NodeNock

 Freebase used in Ranker, RepresentMe.ca

 geocoder used in Starbucks Store Finder

 Google AJAX Libraries used in player4you

 Google Ajax Search used in player4you

 Google Analytics used in Facebook Spectrum, player4you

 Google App Engine used in Instascriber

 Google Chart used in Facebook Spectrum, Statalyze, Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 Google Geocoding used in RepresentMe.ca

 Google Gmail OAuth used in 0boxer

 Google Maps used in Facebook Spectrum, Hospitals in Germany, myscenicdrives, RepresentMe.ca, Starbucks Store Finder, Visual Accents of Point Reyes

 Google Prediction used in Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 Google Search used in player4you, Visual Accents of Point Reyes

 Google Visualization used in Facebook Spectrum

 Instapaper used in Instascriber

 Loxcel used in Starbucks Store Finder

 MusicBrainz used in Music2Mail

 PicPlz used in BadgePlz

 Quora used in Quorafox

 SendGrid used in My Powers Out

 Snapr used in BadgePlz

 Twilio used in Diabetic Alerts, Emory Law Events, My Powers Out, NodeNock, San Jose Art Cloud, TextListen, Twilio @ Home

 Twilio SMS used in Emory Law Events, My Powers Out, TextListen, Twilio @ Home

 Twitter used in Statalyze

 Twitter Streaming used in Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 Weather Channel used in Visual Accents of Point Reyes

 Yahoo Query Language used in Twitter/Stock Sentiment

 YouTube used in player4you

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

 AgentRank for WordPress

 BadgePlz

 Color Pal

 Music2Mail

 My Powers Out

 player4you

 RepresentMe.ca

 Twitter/Stock Sentiment