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A bumper crop of new mashup platforms | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDN
While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups , they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it’s certainly true it’s early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to be changing as I regularly come across compelling new mashup platforms as well as upgrades to existing ones that show what will be possible soon. And for now, as evidenced recently in the McKinsey Web 2.0 in business survey where 21% of organizations globally said they are using or planning to use mashups, there appears to be considerable demand for mashups at the enterprise level even though the majority of existing offerings are primarily aimed at the consumer space. Is this disconnect resolving with the current crop of offerings? Let’s take a look. In today’s mashup world, the apparent business potential of highly accessible and easy-to-use mashup creation tools like Yahoo!This past week 18 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 DigitalNZ , Doba , Foursquare , Hi5 , Mobypicture and Yahoo Placemaker . The most often used APIs this week are Flickr , Google Maps and Twitter . And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (8 APIs, 11 mashups), Mapping (6 APIs, 13 mashups) and Music (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
32 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Bing, Foursquare, Google, Linked
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