What are web services??
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Answers by: webuff | drew | dansnow | Jason McMunn
Web services are essentially websites for other programs to use.
You can make a site that has some information or service on it, the classic example is a stock ticker site. You publish information about stock prices on demand when someone requests them, but you do it in a special fashion that is easy for other programs to read.
Somebody else writes a program that connects to your site automatically to get the information you publish.
Check out the wikipedia article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services