Search Sites Services ITcareers Product Finder Bowstreet readies online Web services exchange Vendor's Business Web Factory software to allow members to share services across Internet. The Business Web Exchange will let members look through an inventory of available services, study background information about them, read ratings by others who've used the services and negotiate a contract with the service providers - all via the Exchange site.
Web services can be anything that's accessible via a browser.
A real estate agent, for example, might import a service that marries census data to zip codes and lets homebuyers profile neighborhoods. Or a manufacturer might add a currency exchange calculator to let international trading partners compare prices and costs in U.S. dollars with local currencies. And so on. The Exchange is being built with Bowstreet's Business Web Factory software, first released last fall. The Exchange will include a new, free, limited feature version of Web Factory called Marketplace Edition.