What are some free/public popular webservices?

Question

For a little personal site of mine I'm trying to come up with a list of the most popular/used webservices that my site can consume (asp.net and/or silverlight app). I'm mostly interested in using the webservices for little dashboard-like objects (weather, news, sports scores, etc)

I've searched sites like webservicex.net and others, but was not able to narrow it down.

Yahoo and Google both have web service APIs but make it a hassle to use them during development.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There are dozens of free stock quote services. The free ones aren't up to date (usually lag about 15-20 minutes) but if you're just looking for some learning tools this is a good place to start.