Creating Services that Fill a Need
For a Web Service to be successful and make money, you have to create something for which people are willing to pay for. The most visible such family of Web Services today is .NET My Services from Microsoft. Microsoft is hoping that developers will incorporate these services into their own products, allowing Microsoft to handle Internet storage of everything from favorite Web sites and contact information to categorization details. (One of the .NET My Services is called myCategories that allows you to organize more specific items, such as myContacts.) The need they hope to fill is that of a central repository of commonly accessed data. According to the Web site, an individual company can deploy .NET My Services ...
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