16 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Facebook and Zappos

Adam DuVander, April 30th, 2011

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This past week 12 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 16 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include EEA Discomap, Face.com and Wine.com. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Twitter and Wine.com. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 3 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 7 mashups) and Music (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

 Amazon Mechanical Turk used in Mechanical Turk Integration Tool

 EEA Discomap used in iEnviroWatch

 Face.com used in Sunglass Mashup

 Facebook used in I Told You, MyLifeInWine.com, Sunglass Mashup, SuperMeeple

 Freebase used in SuperMeeple

 Google Analytics used in Sunglass Mashup

 Google App Engine used in SuperMeeple

 Google Earth used in Twick.it on Google Earth

 Google Maps used in TOTransit – View TTC Streetcars Live on a Map

 Google Social Graph used in Twitter echochamber?

 Last.fm used in spofm

 Spotify Metadata used in spofm

 Twick.it used in Twick.it on Google Earth

 Twitter used in Twalue, Twitter echochamber?

 Wine.com used in MyLifeInWine.com

 Zappos used in ShooSpy

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

 iEnviroWatch

 Mechanical Turk Integration Tool

 MyLifeInWine.com

 ShooSpy

 spofm

 Sunglass Mashup

 Twitter echochamber?