Crows Nest: a service-based web economy [via Moreover - Search results for... wsdl xmlrpc uddi]. Crows Nest: a service-based web economy WebTechniques. A brief look at how Amazon might expose some of it’s [sic] functions as web services. [Ecademy: user blogs]

Author Lincoln B Stein dips his toe into the service-based Web economy.

What the H*ck Are Web Services?. “The name is boring. The acronyms are tedious. The explanations are usually confusing. But a few smart businesses are already using Web services to save a lot of time and money.” (By Brian Caulfield for Business 2.0, 4/2002.) [Brent Sleeper's Web Journal]

Well worth a read if you’re still struggling with the geekiness of Web Services on the one hand, and the hype on the other.

Ecademy. Thanks to Julian Bond for turning me on to this UK-based site where web services are a major focus. It takes a while to find your way around, but there are numerous treasures here. Thanks to David Rosam, too, for recommending the site. [Doug Kaye: Web Services Strategies]

Web Services Security. At the InfoWorld Next Gen Web Services conference in January 2002, 51% of the attendants considered security the single largest obstacle to general acceptance of Web Services. Are these fears warranted, or are these people just scared of something they don’t fully understand? Is the security of Web Services so precarious? Can we overcome these problems so that businesses and the general public will trust these services? We’ll take a look at these issues trying to evaluate the situation. [Web Services Architect]

Strange one this. It keeps coming up.

But last month I met a man who explained to me how they had solved security issues within a B2B Ecosystem. It was very simple.

Web Services Moving Beyond the Hype [internetnews.com: Top News]

In recent weeks I’ve talked to people about a live WS-based procurement system, to a company that builds WS-based Ecosystems, and used Radio every day.

Web Services are live and already working for thousands of users, only the mainstream media continue to miss the point.