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Jesse James Garrett, who wrote The Elements of User Experience blogged on Adaptive Path about ajax: a new approach to web applications. He explains,

He says, “Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.” Garrett follows this with a list of Google projects, such as Google Maps, that are Ajax applications.

Ajax is ‘Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML.’. I keep thinking of JavaScript as old technology, but this will make me reconsider taking a class in it. According to Jeffrey Veen’s blog entry, Scrubbing Innovation into Interaction: Ajax, Ajax “exploits the clumsily-named XmlHttpRequest Object,” which has been around for awhile. There is a long discussion about Ajax on QuirksBlog: Ajax, promise or hype?

Article:
Will AJAX help Google clean up? | CNET News.com

W3 Schools tutorial: XML DOM - HttpRequest object

Paul Boutin wrote a humorous article, Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever, on Slate. He suggests that iMarkup is a killer app for political bloggers. With iMarkup they can post the whole article along with their sticky notes in iMarkup. He admits it won’t work though—there are copyright issues if bloggers start posting copyrighted articles in their own weblog.