AJAX’d WordPress (AWP), formerly know as INAP, is an extremely powerful plugin that harnesses the power of AJAX and WordPress to improve the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential of any WordPress based blog. AWP’s basic features include inline paginated posts, inline comments, threaded comments, the ability to submit comments with AJAX, pagination of your homepage, live comment preview and much more, but it does not, however, force you to use any feature, and it also allows all aspects of the plugin to be easily customized through a single Administration panel. AWP is built to integrate with other plugins and features an advanced module system–based off of WordPress’ plugin system–that allows it to be modified with the addition of third-party extensions. It also has special features that will ensure compatibility with many other plugins.

Website: http://anthologyoi.com/awp

WordPress Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?

Website: http://www.raproject.com/wordpress/wp-ajax-edit-comments/

If you’ve seen websites such as, Digg Big Spy, We Feel Fine, or Gapminder. and you’re a web surfer you are probably amazed. If however, you’re a web designer or programmer you may be wondering how to accomplish these dramatic visualizations. Below you’ll find a list of visualization software, toolkits and programming languages to get you started.

Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I’ve left out. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, Max.

“circaVie allows you to easily create multimedia timelines all about your life. Special events, noteworthy achievements, relationships, memorable vacations, interests and hobbies, celebrations, announcements… you name it. If it’s about life, it’s circaVie. By creating a circaVie timeline and adding events to it, you’re automatically able to share your life and interests with your friends, your family and the rest of the world in a brand new way. You can think of circaVie as a souped-up, unique way of blogging, where you can seamlessly share photos, video and text that other users can comment upon. Your timelines are also portable and can be shared anywhere you like since they’re all embeddable into your personal Web site, or online profile. Just create your timeline here and take it with you wherever you like!”Visit the website

This application allows you to interact with demographic data and visualize it in an easy to use manner. It’s flash based and is a Microsoft Virtual Earth mashup. It allows you to browse U.S. census data by county, population, age, ethnicity, election results, and income. There are many applications for a website like this, as they say on their site, “For any business to be successful, they must take into account both their customers and surrounding areas. Using Visual Fusion Client and Visual Fusion Server, our Demographics Visualizer allows you to pinpoint components of a region to determine where and how your business can be successful. This application allows the individual user to set their search criteria and cater the results for various uses.””

Walk2Web is a new way to explore web sites from a specified starting point. You type in a starting point-like http://www.blogschmog.net-and you see a page with a screenshot sample of the site and the first two levels of a search network, with sites as nodes. There are no more than six at a time, split between incoming and outgoing links with options to display more in either direction. The network grows as you explore, allowing you to make use of some simple directional tools to navigate the part of the World Wide Web you are manually crawling.”

The Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 kicked of the space race. Since then mankind has sent more than 150 missions to explore outer space. The Newsweek captures all 150 world wide space flights in an easy to use timeline format. The visualization is sortable by year, timespan, planet and country. When you roll over a timeline point you get additional information about the flight. Additionaly, if you click on the Inside Sputnik tab you get a visualization of Sputnik 1 and all of its parts. Very fun and easy to use.”

“MeVisLab, the successor of the image processing environment ILAB4, represents a platform for image processing research and development with a focus on medical imaging. It allows fast integration and testing of new algorithms and the development of application prototypes that can be used in clinical environments. Beside general image processing algorithms and visualization tools, MeVisLab includes advanced medical imaging modules for segmentation, registration, volumetry, and quantitative morphological and functional analysis. MeVisLab has been developed by the MeVis Research GmbH in Bremen, Germany. Based on MeVisLab, several clinical prototypes have been realized, including software assistants for neuro-imaging, dynamic image analysis, surgery planning, and vessel analysis.”Visit the website

A three hour video Ajax tutorial presented at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin on November 5th 2007.

Website: http://www.slideshare.net/simon/how-to-make-ajax-work-for-you/

Beneath the peppy front ends of many of todays Rich Internet Applications lies a dark flaw that if left unchecked can bring a site down to it’s knees. For the past few years many designers and developers have been adding AJAX and Javascript functionality to there websites. Many of these websites suffer from threats such as, cross site scripting (also known as XSS), cross-site request forgery (XSRF), and several other well know exploits. Maybe your using one of the popular libraries such as, Prototype and Script.aculo.us, or Dojo and think You’re safe. Think again. Unless you’ve implemented security fixes you may be vulnerable to several types of attacks. The same goes for blog plugins, popular open source applications, and of-course the plethora of free Javascript and AJAX add-ons available at free script websites. If you want to protect yourself, please …