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There's a new beta site that's hit the web just recently - Wridea - that seeks to provide a simple method for web users to "take notes" and quickly just down ideaas from an easy-to-use web application frontend. Never forget your ideas again. Save it when you have it. Create categories and organize your ideas. Create [...]

There's a multitude of "wish list" services out there on the web today, but I have to admit, none of them that I've used have been quite a slick as Wishlistr.com. They make full use of advanced javascript functionality (including Ajax and Script.aculo.us) to make a simple, clean interface that will have you up and [...]

Creativity is required for all web applications these days - everyone wants to find the "next big thing" when it comes to the interface for their site. They want to make people stop, look, and stick around for a while when they see how their site works. One such site, Snap.com is taking this kind [...]

Everyone’s realizing the power of the “enhanced web” and is integrating it into their site, including larger corporations. A prime example of this is some new functionality that Old Naxy has added to their site. To check it out, simply browse on over to a section of the site and mouseover one of the products. A [...]

TeamSlide is a pure Ajax solution for showing and sharing web presentations (normally implemented in Flash or plugin based technologies). You can see an online demo of a presentation, and you will see how scriptaculous-type effects are used to transition slides.

The Morfik team has written a letter to the Ajaxian community, discussing their new chess application, and a lot more: Last week we officially opened the Morfik website www.morfik.com to the general public and provided for download a fully featured release of the WebOS AppsBuilder for evaluation. I would appreciate it if you could review [...]

AjaxAMP 3.0 has been released. AjaxAMP allows you to access Winamp over the network using a web browser and control it or stream music to or from it. What is new in 3.0? Streaming! I Connect the AjaxAMP Media Library to another IP address and stream away! Search the AjaxAMP Media Library blazingly fast. Sort the AjaxAMP Media Library [...]

With all of the utilitarian uses for Ajax that we all see every day, it’s always a nice refresher to see a site taking the technology and using it to bring an older medium back up to date. In this case, it’s the “virtual world” idea and, with the help of some Ajax, Hive7 pulls [...]

In their ever-continuing quest to release one Ajax application a week, the folks over at AjaxLaunch have posted their latest creation - AjaxSketch. It’s an object-oriented drawing program suitable for creating flow charts, org charts, simple diagrams, maps, etc. ajaxSketch can open, edit and save files in SVG, an open standard graphic format, making it compatible [...]

Grazr must be a Web 2.0 company, as it has nuked some vowels, and the 'zr' combination is in place. Grazr lets you build a rich Ajax widget for reading RSS feeds which you can then place on your own site. It has some nice effects as you zoom around the feeds, but it would be [...]

So you've been wanting to get in on the online word processing craze that's been happening, but you don't know where to start. Maybe you've looked into a few but haven't felt comfortable with any yet. Well, the ajaxWrite project is looking to change that. They offer an online editor that has the look and [...]

Travel sites have been pioneers in the Ajax space. One of the first Ajax applications that I saw was a dutch travel site (second to Outlook Web Access of course ;). Paguna.com fits the entire booking process into a single page Ajax application. Run searches, make selections, all in one area.

Popurls.com looks to provide a simple, clean interface for a portal to the "most popular" urls from the hotest sites out there as soon as they break. Among the sites on the list, there's all well-known names - digg.com, del.icio.us, furl.net - and some others that are a bit less used, but up-and-coming none the [...]

There are more than a couple of photo apps popping up these days aren't there. Pixoh is a nice Ajax app that allows you to edit pics via their dhtml interface. You can quickly give it a go, and do simple rotation, cropping, etc. The app is built using Twisted and MochiKit. Features Import pictures from any [...]

WetPaint.com is a new take on the wiki site style, providing the user with some more Web 2.0 kinds of interaction with the site. The allow for the normal wiki community growth and contributions, but adding/editing information in the pages is nothing more than a click away. Why not come up with a way to harness [...]

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch blogged about a company that he has founded called Edge IO. Edge IO is classifieds with a twist. You can post classified requests on your own blog, and Edge IO will automatically pick it up. No need fora centralized system. The UI is very nice too, and Ajax is abound. The search widget [...]

We featured the original iTunes counter but Dunstan Orchard and team. Now they are up to a billion, and they have a new countdown going on. This time, not only do they have the count, but they have a moving list of album art that has been purchased. You can check out how it works via blocks.js. You [...]

Gabriel Levy has released a new version of AjaxAMP the network control for WinAMP. What's new? There are numerous UI and performance enhancements, but the most obvious difference is the addition of the Media Library, which lets you share files on the server and browse/play/enqueue them from the browser with all the lovely Ajaxian snappiness people are [...]