13 APIs Used in 7 Days: Google Places, Hoiio and Genability

Wendell Santos, July 14th, 2012

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This past week 7 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 13 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google URL Shortener, Huffington Post Pollster, Tixik and Wolfram Alpha . The most often used APIs this week are Google Latitude, Google Maps and Google Maps Data. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (4 APIs, 7 mashups), Reference (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Social (1 APIs, 1 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:

 foursquare used in Trippin

 Freebase used in Trippin

 Genability used in CostButton

 Google Latitude used in Flocations, Trippin

 Google Maps used in Flocations, Trippin

 Google Maps Data used in Flocations, Trippin

 Google Places used in Trippin

 Google URL Shortener used in SMS to Phone (Chrome Extension)

 Hoiio SMS used in SMS to Phone (Chrome Extension)

 Huffington Post Pollster used in HuffPost Politics Election Dashboard

 Tixik used in Trippin

 Twilio used in Skip the Bus

 Wolfram Alpha used in Trippin

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

 CostButton

 Flocations

 HuffPost Politics Election Dashboard

 Skip the Bus

 SMS to Phone (Chrome Extension)

 Sunny & Share

 Trippin