This past week 20 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 28 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include FreebieSMS, Google Fusion Tables, Kelkoo, Snapr and Steply. The most often used APIs this week are Freebase, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (4 APIs, 10 mashups), Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups) and Photos (3 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
New tools make for new opportunities.
Much as the availability of connectivity drove the early Internet, social networks spurred all manner of viral expression, and open APIs have transformed software development, an advancing technology has the potential to have a disruptive effect on online usage and its social and business context.
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:
This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 40 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include BooRah Restaurant Search, FlightStats, Google Wave, Livekick, Mobypicture and True Knowledge. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Search (6 APIs, 8 mashups), Mapping (5 APIs, 13 mashups) and Photos (4 APIs, 7 mashups).
For more than 150 years, The New York Times has meticulously indexed its archives, giving it one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. Now this archive has been linked to the open knowledge bases DBPedia and Freebase.
Editor’s note: This guest post comes from Jim Hendler, a professor, web researcher, and Semantic Web evangelist working at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can see more of his teams’ ongoing research at Tetherless World.
A recent article by Tim Berners-Lee, “Putting Government Data online“, has attracted significant interest to the datasets published at the US data.gov [...]
This week saw the widest range of APIs being used to develop mashups we’ve seen in awhile: 42 different APIs used in 7 days. Of those new apps added to our mashup directory, only a handful were map mashups, whereas most of them used more unique APIs: Google Chart API, indeed API, Livekick API, MTV API, NPR API, Tagalus API, TwitPic API, uClassify API, Vimeo API, and the Yelp API. Also, given that within the last 24 hours the highly anticipated Wolfram|Alpha search engine and structured reference went live, we did happen to see a number of semantic and linked-data APIs used this week: Reuters Calais API, DBpedia API, and Freebase API (and we’ve just added a profile for the Wolfram|Alpha API). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
In the past few weeks we’ve seen an influx of new mashups built on the Flickr API, bringing the total number of Flickr-based mashups listed on PW to 275 (click here to see all 275). And it’s not that Flickr is the only photo API out there. Far from it, we have 24 photo APIs [...]
Ever want to programmatically query Wikipedia? It’s a tempting dataset with over 1.6 million articles but yet no official API. While there’s been a rumor that the Wikipedia team will supply an API at some point, for now you can use an API we just listed here: the DBpedia API. It’s a project headed by [...]
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