okay, so i wrote a whole bit about this rapidly expanding world of ajax applications earlier, and this is the part 2 in which i round up a whole bunch of other nifty tools and utilities, along with some resources for developers….but you know what? it dawned on me that there are more of these ajax apps popping up than there are new cia leaks and natural disasters combined…we must now think about a better rating and review mechanism, okay? (we being ‘me, myself and i’ along with my blind dog and my imaginary friends)…oh, yeah, here’s the part 2 round up, developer notes are down at the bottom below the list…

backbase: a whole personal portal build-it-yourself tool (reminds of the crap from the late 90’s that nobody really wanted back then either, but hey, it’s pretty cool - doesn’t yahoo already do this? and elgoog?)…they’ve also put up a cool-ass demo of an rss reader in ajax…

protopage: you could also build your portal here too….

backpackit: a whole bunch of cool ass tools, you know who loves this shit? david clark does!

tadalist: an all ajax to-do list app that dave clark also loves, we’ve both used it to launch sites…

tudu: …yes, another to-do list application…

remember the milk: okay, yet another to-do list, but with the best name!

the facebook: connect with high school and college buddies, all ajax (or is it?)…

kayak: you can dig up tickets and travel info for anyplace with this interface, even if you don’t kayak, duh….oh, and one of the founders is getting his own upcoming blog entry for a very, very cool little pet project that’s got zero to do with kayak…

playbabble: actually an ajax word game, because i love word games…this weekend my son and i played scrabble and i felt so bad that i let him play “zn” (you know, for ‘zinc’) and then he wound up winning and i was all bummed out and shit…

..and for developers, there’s some sweet shit to learn from bindows - a whole software development kit…

…and for basics, there’s html editor, a pretty slick and simple editing tool - and you can dick around with colors at colr…or you could just build a whole damn site with webezz, and then give users a sweet wysiwyg editor to boot…oh, and that company above (backbase) offers ajax sample code for developers, as does clearnova, and also the midnight coders site…

…and if you’re brave, you can try to deconstruct and deploy an ajax instant messenger - or you could visit the now defunct gmail.net site (remember, i talked to that guy about sun and elgoog bullragging him?), because jerry has put up the source code to a very nice little ajax commenting utility (you just need click the “open sesame” link below the box on that site to find it…)

…oh yeah, and then there’s ning, for quickly building social apps - all php based (like mashups from elgoog or craigslist, etc) - and don’t ignore it, because it’s marc andressen’s new startup - you know marc, right? the guy who brought us netscape, and put a real face on php when he joined the board of zend (php tools company)…gonna blog on some of these later on (independently)…

if you are really, really interested in everything that’s being done on ajax in the world of applications beyond just this round-up, then consider going to each and every one of the sites in this post and the earlier post and email or comment (on their blogs) with those folks to find out what they’re following and watching…it’s gettin’ awfully crowded around the ajax landscape, no way all of these are gonna survive, sorry…

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