Lightweight Consumer Web Services: Amazon, eBay, Google, and Yahoo

by Tom Welsh

Five years ago, the Web services revolution started with a bang:IBM and Microsoft collaborating, industry-wide consensus, and the prospect of computers interoperating all around the world. In June 2001, Bill Gates made the following farsighted remarks:

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Lightweight Consumer Web Services: Amazon, eBay, Google, and Yahoo May 2005