31 APIs Used in 7 Days: Zillow, Sendgrid and Yahoo Answers

Wendell Santos, February 11th, 2012

This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 31 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Amazon SES, Google Directions, Google Distance Matrix, Picitup, Stripe, UrbanDictionary and VHX. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, SendGrid and Twilio. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (4 APIs, 7 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 6 mashups) and Search (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


30 APIs Used in 7 Days: Twilio, Bing, Reddit

Wendell Santos, January 14th, 2012

This past week 20 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 30 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AwardWallet, Factual, Quizlet Flashcards and SpamOn. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Search (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 7 mashups) and Social (3 APIs, 9 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


26 Weather APIs, 12 Support JSON

Wendell Santos, January 11th, 2012

HAMweather AerisWeather has always been a popular category with 26 Weather APIs listed in our directory. While XML is still the leading data format used, the trend of JSON becoming the developer’s choice over the last few years is also reflected in the Weather category. Since the beginning of 2010, JSON is the leading data format used by Weather APIs with 11 added to the directory out of 12 JSON weather APIs. The chart below shows the breakdown of APIs using various data formats.


25 APIs Used in 7 Days: CareerBuilder, Last.fm, LinkedIn

Wendell Santos, August 27th, 2011

This past week 23 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 25 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include CareerBuilder, FreshBooks, LinkUp Job Search Engine, Magento, Mediaburst SMS, Scalr and SocialOomph. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Job Search (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Social (4 APIs, 9 mashups) and Reference (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


32 APIs Used in 7 Days: YouTube, Netflix, Facebook and Twitter

Adam DuVander, February 12th, 2011

This past week 27 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 32 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Avvo, Collecta, Forvo, Google Geocoding, Google Gmail OAuth, Map24 AJAX API, Playme, Quora, SemanticHacker, SendGrid and Yahoo PlaceFinder. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (5 APIs, 7 mashups), Social (4 APIs, 6 mashups) and Music (3 APIs, 4 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


23 APIs Used in 7 Days: FedEx, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Last.fm

Adam DuVander, January 8th, 2011

This past week 16 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 Abbreviations, Kynetx, PubSub, Qwerly, Superfeedr and Yahoo Music Engine. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twilio and Twilio SMS. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Reference (3 APIs, 4 mashups) and Mapping (3 APIs, 6 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


55 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp and YouTube

Adam DuVander, November 13th, 2010

This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 55 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AlchemyAPI Keyword and Term Extraction , Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, BatchBook, CitySourced, Dailyplaces, Factual, Google Maps Elevation, Google Places, SEOmoz, Walk Score, WhitePages.com, Yellow Canada and Zappos. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Google Earth and Google Maps. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (8 APIs, 14 mashups), Shopping (7 APIs, 8 mashups) and Social (6 APIs, 9 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:


Best New Mashups: Doing More With Geo-Data

Adam DuVander, July 5th, 2010

Sure, making a map mashup (like the more than 2,200 map mashups we list) is fairly simple these days, but how about showing more complex geographic data? That’s a bit tougher, but the sites below make it look easy. These three mashups provide environmental data, human-created place boundaries and a tool for robust geo-spatial analysis.


37 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Bing, Facebook, Google, Twilio, Twitter, Weather Channel and YouTube

John Musser, June 20th, 2010

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:

Amazon eCommerce Amazon eCommerce used in Online Toy Store

Bing Maps Bing Maps used in Flickr Shapefiles Demo

DBpedia DBpedia used in dbrec

Facebook Facebook used in G4ng, PicWash Photo Retouch Service

Flickr Flickr used in Flickr Shapefiles Demo, PicWash Photo Retouch Service

GeoNames GeoNames used in G4ng

Google Ajax Search Google Ajax Search used in G4ng

Google App Engine Google App Engine used in Google Buzz via SMS

Google Buzz Google Buzz used in G4ng, Google Buzz via SMS

Google Chart Google Chart used in G4ng

Google Custom Search Google Custom Search used in G4ng

Google Directions Google Directions used in G4ng

Google Earth Google Earth used in G4ng

Google Gears Geolocation Google Gears Geolocation used in G4ng

Google Maps 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 Google Maps Data used in G4ng

Google Maps Elevation Google Maps Elevation used in G4ng

Google OpenID Google OpenID used in G4ng

Google Picasa Google Picasa used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service

Google Static Maps Google Static Maps used in G4ng

Google Translate Google Translate used in G4ng

Google Visualization Google Visualization used in G4ng

indeed indeed used in Common Interview Querstions

Last.fm Last.fm used in dbrec

LinkedIn LinkedIn used in Jobs Assistant

MaxMind GeoIP MaxMind GeoIP used in G4ng

OpenLayers OpenLayers used in G4ng

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap used in G4ng

Panoramio Panoramio used in G4ng

Photobucket Photobucket used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service

Smugmug Smugmug used in PicWash Photo Retouch Service

TourCMS Marketplace TourCMS Marketplace used in Things to do Near Aviemore, Cairngorms National Park, TourCMS Marketplace Widgets

Twilio Twilio used in Remindium

Twilio SMS Twilio SMS used in Speed Dial Group Messaging

Twitter Twitter used in dbrec, G4ng, spiggler: Tweets on Streets, World Cup Mashup

Weather Channel Weather Channel used in G4ng

YouTube YouTube used in dbrec

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

 Common Interview Querstions

 dbrec

 Flickr Shapefiles Demo

 G4ng

 Google Buzz via SMS

 spiggler: Tweets on Streets

 World Cup Mashup


29 APIs Used in 7 Days: eBay, Facebook, Google, Kayak, LinkedIn, Twitter, Weather Channel, and YouTube

John Musser, May 29th, 2010

This past week the new mashups added to our mashup directory used 29 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Active, ChaCha, JoyRack Games and World Time Engine. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (4 APIs, 11 mashups), Utility (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups).


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