Web Services
Web services are software components stored on one computer that can be accessed by an app (or other software component) on another computer over the Internet. With web services, you can create mashups, which enable you to rapidly develop apps by quickly combining complementary web services, often from different organizations and possibly other forms of information feeds. For example, 100 Destinations (www.100destinations.co.uk) combines the photos and tweets from Twitter with the mapping capabilities of Google Maps to allow you to explore countries around the world through the photos of others.
Programmableweb (http://www.programmableweb.com/) provides a directory of over 9,400 APIs and 7,000 mashups, plus how-to guides and sample ...
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