Max Kiesler put together a nice collection of eye candy resources. He mentions his interest in data visualization was in part due to the digg spy. This is an except of his post where Max explains his motivations behind putting the list together:

“As an interaction designer I’m always wondering what’s next. Over the last few years we’ve become familiar with web application design, new constructs like recency and popularity, however, in the back-channel of web design there has been an increasing movement towards data visualizations, both large and small. You can currently see this in everything from blog design to large-scale data visualizations like We Feel Fine and digg labs. Designers and programers are coming together in new ways, which in the end result are producing some of the most functional, and creative web interfaces I’ve ever seen.“

Personally, I’d like to see more innovative uses of Ajax with some of the resources he has listed here and the growing number of Web APIs. I think we will see them in 2007 as Ajax interest continues to climb two years after the phrase was coined. What are your opinions?