Web services have been all the talk of the high tech industry for ages, and Microsoft’s .NET was supposed to be the Web services platform. But .NET is still vapourware—wind, hot air and empty speculation with nothing to show for it yet.
      Of course UserLand Radio did it all before anyone else. Apple released its Web services lat night, named .Mac. And now Amazon has got into the Web services game.
     
Here is an example of using Amazon’s Web services—a light version of Amazon.com search, by an independent developer.