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Dan Woods raises some salient points for CIOs to consider in his JargonSpy column this week, in which he talks about the many useful Web services available today from the Google Maps API, Amazon.com, eBay, online banking, and FedEx and UPS package tracking.

The operational expense of such services is seldom discussed. In the column, Woods mentions that with this "flood" of Web services, CIOs should take into account the "integration debt," in which the amount of effort it takes to make all the services work together exceeds the effort spent on doing the task at hand.

This column is an eye-opener for anyone considering the operational implications of web services today.