As a designer I’m faced with new and emerging technologies everyday. For me, a big part of the enjoyment of working on the internet is seeing a new wiki, and trying to figure out how it can be applied to real-world web design. Recently, AJAX has been at the forefront of many of the latest developments on the internet. Here is a great example to show yourself or your clients the power of AJAX – and it free!

Protopage has released a great little free AJAX wiki that you can sign up for in less than two minutes. When you first arrive at the site, you’ll be greeted by the wiki itself. In fact, it’s the same one you’ll be using. Sign up only takes a minute, and as soon as you respond to your auto registration email you’ll be up and running.

The first thing you should do is change the name of your page to your name as I did. See my test page. You can really see the power of AJAX at work here. Add a sticky note, change your colors on the fly or just drag your items around the screen. All, with no flash just javascript and httpRequests – nice.

There are many fine AJAX demos out there with all of there complexities but, if you just want to sit back and have some fun go to Protopage.