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Using just one tool featuring extensible image preferences, you can manage your Ajax loader needs for a site of any feel or target audience. Add Ajaxload to your arsenal!

Ajaxload is an indispensible free web service that generates a wide variety of Ajax “loading” images. Choose your preferences (image base shape, foreground color, and background color or transparency), click “Generate It”, and in 30 seconds or less you can download the image for use in your own Ajax application. It is the best Ajax image generator on the web that I have seen to date.

(via Josh)

WordPress comment system using Yahoo! UI’s AJAX.

It is really brilliant and I want to implement this in my own blog in the future. Not only is the block commenting brilliant - commenting on any block (paragraph, heading, image, etc.) - but the navigation drawer is absolutely delightful. Depending on the aptitude of your users, one could default the navigation to be tacked, with more advanced users choosing to untack to increase the usable reading space.

These types of real life examples of Web2.0 are what keep me interested in the industry.