Personalized Google & AJAX

Alan Levine of CogDogBlog writes about Google's personalized home page feature, which allows you to add custom content to Google's search page such as RSS feeds, weather, news, quotes of the day, bookmarks, etc. The feature that blew me away was the ability to reposition components of the interface through drag-and-drop. This is apparently accomplished through Ajax, a new web design development approach that apparently everyone (except for me) talks about. Serves me right for going on vacation.

The closing plenary session of MERLOT was on Pachyderm, which seems to make the art of creating great looking web pages easy and simple for the non-developer. As Alan implied in his post, AJAX could bring Pachyderm to the next level.

Call me a nerd, but I'm just pumped to figure out how AJAX works and how to incorporate it into my own sites. Unfortunately, I guess it'll have to wait until Monday - the weekend beckons!