Watch for this new trend: developers are stepping out of their day jobs and using the programming tools provided by big e-commerce and search sites like Amazon and Yahoo to develop new services. There’s no clear economic model yet, but this trend looks very ripe–expect some one to break out of the ranks with a successful business any day now.

BusinessWeek Online: Mix, Match, And Mutate.

People are seizing far more control of what they do online. In the process, those efforts are putting skin on the bones of Web services, the long-delayed promise of software and services that can be tapped on demand. "They’re taking little bits and pieces from a number of companies and stitching them together in some clever way," Amazon Chief Executive Jeffrey P. Bezos noted recently. "You’ll start to see the real power of Web services."