Basically, Web Services are central to personal publishing. They are also essential to simple point and click composite Web apps that run on the desktop and for sharing data between apps that run on the desktop. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Of course, I totally agree.
After discovering iChat yesterday, today it was Sherlock day. As you might have heard, Sherlock has turned to a web-services front end, much like Watson already was.
What this means is that I can access services such as Flights schedules, translations, dictionaries, search engines and more from an optimized user interface.
Too bad Microsoft is not counting these...