Max Kiesler – Designer

Seth Godin’s new project. Launch pending

Website: http://www.squidoo.com/

Server Push

Website: http://ejohn.org/blog/streaming-http-server-push/

Browser-based Word Processor and Office Suite

Website: http://www.goffice.com/

Google maps, traffic cameras and A9 images for New York City

Website: http://www.alkemis.com/default.asp?pID=laboratory&pID2=googleMapA

Object-oriented platform for developing AJAX applications

Website: http://www.bindows.net/

Thumbnailer method for a Rails ‘Photo’ controller

Website: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/tag/rmagick

One-click solution to RoR development for Mac OS X 10.3+

Website: http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/

Ruby based calendar

Website: http://calendar-grid.rubyforge.org/

Browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor

Website: http://www.synchroedit.com/

Web based spreadsheets for sharing

Website: http://numsum.com/

Create personal search engines

Website: http://www.rollyo.com/

An online tool for taking notes

Website: http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/

The Web Word Processor

Website: http://www.writely.com/

Live, group note-taking

Website: http://www.jotlive.com/

World’s Easiest JavaScript AJAX ToolKit

Website: http://www.redredmusic.com/brendon/ajform/#examples

Make all your tables sortable

Website: http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours

Website: http://bennolan.com/behaviour/

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.

PHP framework based on Ruby on Rails

Website: http://phpontrax.com/

Ajax python framework

Website: http://www.turbogears.org/