# The APIs I Depend On To Run API Evangelist

**Author:** kinlane  
**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2014/04/14/the-apis-i-depend-on-to-run-api-evangelist/

I maintain an active list of online services I depend on for my business, using Evernote. Each month I spend an hour or two maintaining this list, to make sure it is complete and actively change my logins when appropriate. 

I saw the recent Heartbleed SSL situation as an opportunity to move forward some of my IT practices, including [using 1Password to manage all of my accounts](http://kinlane.reclaimyourdomain.org/2014/04/12/downloading-1password-from-agilebits/), and better profiling which APIs I'm consuming. This gave me an opportunity to update my list of APIs that I depend on, adding about 4 or 5 new ones.

First I depend on a couple of the core Google APIs:

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/google/gmail-logo.jpeg)](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/ "Gmail API")

**[Gmail](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/ "Gmail API")** - Integrate my daily emails, as well as email blasts with my administrative system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/google/google-contacts-logo.png)](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/ "Google Contacts API")

**[Google Contacts](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/ "Google Contacts API")** - Keep business and individual profiles in my admin system in sync with my daily Google Contacts activity.

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/google/google-calendar-logo.png)](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/ "Google Calendar API")

**[Google Calendar](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/ "Google Calendar API")** - Publish hackathon calendars to Google Calendar as well as keep conferences, meetups and other events I pull through APIs and curate in sync

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/google/google-docs-icon.png)](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/ "Google Docs API")

**[Google Docs](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/ "Google Docs API")** - Publish copies of blog posts to Google Docs, as well as version of pages from my content management system to Google Docs

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/google/google-sites-icon.png)](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/sites/ "Google Sites API")

**[Google Sites](https://developers.google.com/google-apps/sites/ "Google Sites API")** - All of my research is in Google Sites. So I tend to publish lists of curated news, blog posts and other research to wiki pages under specific projects

Next, I would say Amazon Web Services delivers some pretty critical APIs I can't live without:

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/amazon/amazon-ec2-icon.png)](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ "Amazon EC2")

**[Amazon EC2](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ "Amazon EC2")** - I deploy and shutdown various EC2 instances for various jobs I run for API Evangelist. All APIs are managed on AWS EC2

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/amazon/amazon-s3-icon.png)](http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ "Amazon S3")

**[Amazon S3](http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ "Amazon S3")** - All heavy objects in my systems are stored at Amazon S3 including photos, PDFs, presentations and video

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/amazon/amazon-route-53-icon.png)](http://aws.amazon.com/route53/ "Amazon Route 53")

**[Amazon Route 53](http://aws.amazon.com/route53/ "Amazon Route 53")** - I use AWS Route 53 to manage the underlying DNS for all my applications and sites across multiple domains

Then there are an assortment of other APIs I use throughout my web sites and applications:

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-service-providers/3Scale/3scale-logo.png)](https://support.3scale.net/reference/active-docs "3Scale")

**[3Scale](https://support.3scale.net/reference/active-docs "3Scale")** - I depend on 3Scale API Infrastructure APis to remotely manage different aspects of my API management workflow

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/alchemy/alchemyAPI-logo.jpeg)](http://www.alchemyapi.com/ "AlchemyAPI")

**[AlchemyAPI](http://www.alchemyapi.com/ "AlchemyAPI")** - I use alchemy for content, keyword and author extraction on articles and site pages that I curate as part my daily routine

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/angellist/AngelList-logo.png)](https://angel.co/api "AngelList")

**[AngelList](https://angel.co/api "AngelList")** - I pull company profiles from AngelList and use in my research and profile for API Evangelist

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/bitly/bitly-logo.png)](http://dev.bitly.com/ "Bitly")

**[Bitly](http://dev.bitly.com/ "Bitly")** - I manage most of my shortened URLs for tracking on link traffic across the API Evangelist using Bitly

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/crunchbase/crunchbase-logo.png)](http://www.crunchbase.com/api "Crunchbase")

**[Crunchbase](http://www.crunchbase.com/api "Crunchbase")** - I pull company profiles from Crunchbase and use in my research and profile for API Evangelist

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/eventbrite/event-brite-logo.jpeg)](http://developer.eventbrite.com/ "Eventbrite API")

**[EventBrite](http://developer.eventbrite.com/ "Eventbrite API")** - I pull hackathons, meetups and conferences from EventBrite and use in my admin system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/evernote/evernote-logo.jpeg)](http://dev.evernote.com/ "Evernote")

**[Evernote](http://dev.evernote.com/ "Evernote")** - I do all my note taking and recording of thoughts in Evernote, there are some folders I keep in sync with my admin system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/flickr/flickr-logo.jpeg)](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ "Flickr API")

**[Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ "Flickr API")** - I've historically published a lot of public images to Flickr for SEO purposes, so many of my blog posts or events that I record a lot of images and video from get stored at Flickr using the API in my admin system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/foursquare/foursquare-logo.png)](https://developer.foursquare.com/index "Foursquare")

**[Foursquare](https://developer.foursquare.com/index "Foursquare")** - I use Foursquare as a journal and pull the timeline into my admin system and apply as framework to my writing and traveling

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/fullcontact/full-contact-logo.png)](http://www.fullcontact.com/developer/ "Full Contact")

**[Full Contact](http://www.fullcontact.com/developer/ "Full Contact")** - I use FullContact for building oiut profies of individuals in my company CRMS system,which helps me understand the public profiles of people like Twitter, LinkedIn and Github

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/api-evangelist/github/github-logo.png)](http://developer.github.com/v3/ "Github API")

**[Github](http://developer.github.com/v3/ "Github API")** - All my stories use Gists to display code and some of my larger productions have full repositories that I access via command line and via the API

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/nimble/nimble-crm.jpeg)](http://www.nimble.com/ "Nimble")

**[Nimble](http://www.nimble.com/ "Nimble")** - I use Nimble to manage my CRM externally. It offers some featuers that simply CRM maangement for specific projects or groups. Sometimes I setup CRM systems here for customers.

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/paypal/paypal-logo.jpeg)](https://developer.paypal.com/ "Paypal API")

**[Paypal](https://developer.paypal.com/ "Paypal API")** - I handle subscriptions and white paper purchases via Paypal

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/pinboard/pinboard_in_blue.png)](http://pinboard.in/api/ "Pinboard API")

**[Pinboard](http://pinboard.in/api/ "Pinboard API")** - All my curation runs through Pinboard. Anything I bookmark while reading feeds or on the open web gets bookmarked with Pinboard, then with the API I pull into my admin system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/programmableweb/programmableweb-logo.png)](http://api.programmableweb.com/ "ProgrammableWeb API")

**[ProgrammableWeb](http://api.programmableweb.com/ "ProgrammableWeb API")** - I use ProgrammableWeb's API to pull new APIs into my curation system

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/stackexchange/StackExchangeLogo1.png)](http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/usage "Stack Exchange API")

**[Stack Exchange](http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/usage "Stack Exchange API")** - I use stack exchange to monitor API activity on the forums and keep track of discussion counts for various APIs.

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/tumblr/tumblr-logo.png)](http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2 "Tumblr API")

**[Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2 "Tumblr API")** - I assemble some curated posts and summaries and publish to Tumblr via the API

[![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-evangelist/twitter/tweet-bird-blue-white.png)](https://dev.twitter.com/ "Twitter API")

**[Twitter](https://dev.twitter.com/ "Twitter API")** - Twitter is central to my API monitoring, ranking and curation system. I depend on the REST and Streaming APIs

I depend on these APIs to run [API Evangelist](http://apievangelist.com "API Evangelist"), as well as support the other research and consulting that I do. Some of these services I pay for, some of them I use for free.  

I’m sure I depend on a lot of APIs, partly because this is my game, I’m an API Evangelist, but it is also because APIs provide me with the data and resources I need to operate.

Tracking on the APIs I depend is a regular part of my IT strategy, and eventually I am going to publish this as a public page on my websites--showcasing what APIs have done for my business.