With Thumbstacks.com, you can make presentations – like slideshows, or outlines – right in your web browser. When you’re done, you can share your presentations with anyone, anywhere, just by sending them a link.

Website: http://www.thumbstacks.com/

Wufoo is a web-based tool to help you build and host amazing online forms. In only a few short minutes, you can create a mailing list, a marketing survey or even a complete customer management system.

Website: http://wufoo.com/

CSS Tabs seem to be all the rage with the kids these days. I love the idea of them. It seems that the most popular method of creating tabs using CSS is the Sliding Doors method. They seem to look the coolest and are very easy to implement. However, they’re so… static. I’ve taken the idea of the sliding door tabs and mixed them up with a little javascript and ajax to make them very dynamic on the client side.

Website: http://www.havocstudios.com/articles/ajax/ajax_tabs/

They’ve been around since forever, and they all work the same way. You have a page full of thumbnails, and when you click one, you get a page with a larger version. What if thumbnails could grow into full images seamlessly right on the same page?

Website: http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/06/08/index2a.html

The user experience for most online calendaring systems is slow, non-ituitive, and frustrating. The thing that usually turns me off first about online calendaring is the constant page reloading. Reloading the calendar to add, delete, and edit entries is time consuming and cumbersome. Spongecell, solves all of these issues with the intelligent use AJAX features and widgets. For me the highlights include drag and drop event times into any date, instant event editing via AJAX popovers, and a fast send to friend feature. A great user experience!”

The twin tasks of the XMLHttp are handling the HTTP request, and then processing the XML response. The first one is easily done by writing the appropriate syntax for creating this object. This is what is accomplished in AJAX by invoking the new constructor for XMLHTTP object.

Website: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/XML/Roaming-through-XMLDOM-An-AJAX-Prerequisite/

You don’t have to write any javascript, but if you want you’re free to do so and you can mix as you want, use TinyAjax automatically generated code and your own existing scripts. You can also export global functions and a class-functions in the same page. – metz.se

Website: http://www.metz.se/tinyajax/index.php

In a day when many users have dozens if not hundreds of feeds, ratings and reputations systems are becoming increasingly important in the web 2.0 space. Ajaxian has implemented a nice wordpress hack of the votio rating system.The AJAX user generated ratings system is intuitive and fun to use. A good user experience with instant results. “

In getting to know Prototype a little better, I decided to go through the latest version of the Prototype library (1.5.0_pre0) and detail every method and property that was available. In doing so, I got a much better understanding of how the code works. Here are the files in a 1280×960 and a widescreen 1440×900 version.

Website: http://www.snook.ca/archives/000531.php

AJAX blog focusing on new AJAX developments.

Website: http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/