Top 10 Ajax Applications: Now With Screenshots
Dan Grossman posted about the top 10 new Ajax applications, but he neglected to obtain some screenshots for our perusal! So, I’m just going to post the list in order again, this time with sneak previews:
1) Kiko, an online collaborative callendar
2) Backbase’s RSS reader
3?Backpack, a large to do list web application
??Writely, an online text / word processor
5?Amazon Suggest, fills a frame with results “as you type” which is really when you stop typing. Saves you a click of that submit button….
?) Time tracker, a time management / scheduling tool with a somewhat cludgy interface.
7) 
Delicious Director: a fast, snappy way to drill down through del.icio.us data!
Backbase’s Portal, a bad copy of start.com
9) Protopage: YAP (Yet Another Portal) that is too cluttered for my tastes
10) Periodic table, ajaxed somehow…
Out of this list of Ajax apps, I can only truly recommend the following: the Backbase RSS reader, Backpack, Writely, and the Delicious Director. The rest are varying degrees of crappy…
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First off, thanks for the plugin. I installed it today, and we shall see if it works as you claim 100% of the time. Secondly, thanks for this lovely entry about these ajax programs. ((sweet)) And lastly, I think I might add you to my reading. I like your blog entries.
It seems Ajax is going the same route that fancy DHTML went. Remember all those sites using the Dynamic Duo DHTML lib? Some were good but a lot of them were using it just because they could. Ajax is great if you use it right. If you use it for the sake of using it you’ll end up with the same **** we’ve seen before.
Did you checkout backbase community edition by the way? It seems like a really nice little toolkit!