Mashup Camp is wrapping up in Mountain View and the votes are getting counted for the best mashup. I was not very impressed yesterday, but today previewed several projects that were both elegant and seemed to have some practical - perhaps even commercial - benefits.

It is not really fair to judge these based on the 5 minute ¨mini-pitches¨ in front of small laptops, but thatś how we do it here at Mashup Camp.

My favorite was Mapdango, which used about 5+ APIs from services like Flickr, Wikipedia, and Google to search city focused information and deliver an excellent collection of data from many sources. The Mapdango interface was intuitive - something that is lacking in many mashups, let along many large commercial websites. The website provided a widget as well, and generally was as nicely fleshed out application.

I was also impressed with several iPhone and mobile applications, especially the one that allowed you to track your location and your friends locations using pings or wifi triangulation and Facebook integration. Another excellent mashup combined a salesforce contact database with LinkedIn data and mapping to create an effective contact management tool.

One team had tracked Flickr images over time after tiring of so many mapping mashups. This concept would soon be applied to RSS feeds as well and could offer some very interesting trend insights.

One of the most popular was an iPhone Netflix mashup that allowed you to shop for movies at movie kiosks via your iPhone. The iPhone CNET application was also excellent, allowing extensive info browsing via the iPhone.

My apologies to some of the good mashups I have left off here.

… and the winner is … Mapdango!

For a complete list (eventually) visit the Mashup Camp website.