Aggregating a bunch of textdriven sites. I don’t like these planet sites so much, but I my feed is already in there, and it looks like I need to give it something to munch on.
Asynchronous javascript and xml, or – the future of web apps. I heard DHH mumble something about putting a lot of the xmlhttprequest bits he had been working on for his next big project into rails – and I can’t wait. This stuff really is cool.
It’s a desktop app in my browser over the web – and it uses XmlHTTPRequest, not flash! I declare it year of the web application.