A Layman’s Primer on AJAX
For all of those who have heard about this cool new Web 2.0 technology called AJAX but have no idea what it is or what it means for the average user, the CNET did a decent write-up.
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links for 2005-09-30
Slingbox update (tags: Leisure NewProducts) CapitolLink: Sen. Obama Is Blogging, Too (tags: OnlinePolitics Blogs) InfoSpace In Play (tags: MandA Search) MarketingVOX: MTV, Warner Partner on Mobile Content (tags: MobileContent) B.L. Ochman’s weblog – Very Dim Publicist Dooced for “Anonymous” Blog (tags: Blogs EmployeeBlogging PR)