quickSub is a Javascript function that adds intelligence to the Jason Brome’s RSS feed feed button on your web page. Just roll your mouse over the example, and you’ll be instantly greeted by one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators.

Website: http://www.methodize.org/quicksub/

Litebox is a modified version of Lightbox v2.0 created with one thing in mind, size reduction. Litebox utilizes the 3kb javascript library moo.fx in association with prototype.lite, giving us the basic tools we need to make this work and you the ability to expand.

Website: http://www.doknowevil.net/litebox/

Most of the sites that I’ve featured recently that have to do with content visualization have really been about deep discovery. If you take that notion and apply it to a search engine you have mnemo map. With mnemo you can search Yahoo!, flickr, and YouTube by tags, synonyms and translations for any search term. mnemo, “combines the technologies of social networking, search engines and other data sources to help you formulate search queries and find really relevant information”. I have to say the site is a very refreshing way to search! Thanks. “

Application Program Interfaces are, broadly speaking, tools for building software applications. An operating system API might help you build applications with a consistent interface, but Web APIs are mostly about giving you access to data. Even Web APIs aren’t a new idea. Google’s search API has been available via SOAP since 2002, and there’s definitely older services than that. However, the recent growth in Web API availability has been fuelled by two recent developments. The first, which I’ve already mentioned, was a philosophical change in the way that data is handled. The second was the introduction of AJAX. Again, not a new idea, or even a new technology, but sometimes it’s all about timing.

Website: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/ajax/go-forth-and-api

Lovelines is one of the most unique content visualization ideas I’ve seen recently. “Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration, We Feel Fine – wefeelfine.org, Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post.” Lovelines shows it’s data in words, pictures and superlatives. Words and pictures present individual examples of love and hate. Superlatives provides a daily zeitgeist of the most loved and hated things. All in all a very amazing content visualization of how the blogosphere feels about love and hate on a up to the minute basis. “

When I first started posting about AJAX over a year ago, many of the posts I found were about definitions, theory or examples. Today, most of the links that I find are tutorials and I applaud this. The following is a list of what I consider to be the best and most helpful AJAX tutorials I’ve found in the last two months. “Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great AJAX tutorials and I’ll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who produced all of these great free learning experiences.”AJAX and API Tutorials rnGo forth and APIrnApplication Program Interfaces are, broadly speaking, tools for building software applications. An operating system API might help you build applications with a consistent interface, but Web APIs are mostly …

AJAX done well can reduce server load and bandwidth, but I’ve seen a lot of people jumping on the AJAX bandwagon who don’t really consider what the impact is on the back-end. Done badly, AJAX can bring a server to its knees.

Website: http://blog.metawrap.com/blog/ScalableAJAXForTheLoveOfGodThinkOfTheServers.aspx

SwfJax is a new approach to asynchronous JavaScript and XML applications using revolutionary Flash technology. SwfJax uses a lightweight SWF (Adobe’s Small Web Format or simply – Flash) engine to get XML data from the server and xPath (XML Path Language) to address a part of data it has retrieved. Data can be returned back to Javascript as an Array. You can also send multiple xPath queries at once.

Website: http://incito.lt/index.php#/gateways/go.php?to=products/swfjax

There are many directory management tools out there, however, Relay is worth checking out. Relay is a free, downloadable AJAX powered directory manager that feels very much like a desktop application. Features include, drag-n-drop files and folders, dynamic loading file structure, upload progress bar, thumbnail view, including pdf and multiple users & accounts. Awesome open source AJAX app! “

In the last 20 hours I’ve received over 12,000 unique visitors, 957 diggs and 495 bookmarks in del.icio.us to my post, “How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible – 40 Tutorials and Articles”. Special thanks to Kevin Rose of Digg for submitting my story to his awesome website!rn