WebSage

Just a brief list of free tools for Ajax web development:

Dojo, the Javascript tool kit
Prototype Javascript library and framework
ASP.Net Ajax - Microsoft’s Ajax framework

And a couple of cool online calendars:

CalendarHub
Kiko

Last but not least, a summary of a presentation by Adam Bosworth, Google’s VP of Engineering, on the past failure and current success of Ajax:
“…in the [...]

Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Balmer, in an interview with the Financial Times addresses the next priorities facing the biggest software company in the world, now that Vista has been launched:
“FT: …Search: where are you going further with search?
BALLMER: It’s one of these areas where we are clearly not the market leader. The market leader is [...]