During the last year an API directory hosted by the ProgrammableWeb, one of the leading information sources on APIs, grew as much as it had during the previous five years.
ProgrammableWeb, a site that tracks mashups, figures that about half of the mashups it sees are based on Google's map business and about half of all mashups fund themselves using the Google ad machine.
The company has attracted considerable attention in recent weeks for the re-launch of iHeartRadio, which provides links to Web versions of its broadcast stations, along with a Pandora-like user programmable radio service.