What are the best web services?

[KevinF]

Let's start a thread to keep track of the web services on the internet. Web service has been a buzzword for a while, but it seems that web services are now competitive with desktop applications for many functions.

Meebo is a full featured IM client. It works pretty well.

Gmail Gmail is one of the best email clients available, on or off the web. I hear Yahoo and Hotmail have pretty good new web service email clients too.

 

[KevinF]

Writely is a web service word processor. It is simple and works.

 

[jaynonymous]

Writely's getting a lot of press lately. If you listen to Dvorak, he seems to think that it's a threat to MS. 37Signals have several new products coming out soon, along with their existing products. A lot of people seem to like their "less software" approach.