I’m opening up the Ajax wiki soon and one of the really important things there will be to let everyone add examples. So I kicked off an Ajax Examples page. It’s based mostly on the original content linked from FiftyFourEleven, blatently combined with most of the showcases featured on Ajaxian. And a few others for good measure.

Here, I wanted to highlight some of the lesser-known Ajax apps that warrant 30 seconds of playtime.

• Quek Chatting about the website you’re looking at. A limited version of “community surfing” plugins, but without the plugin. This could go far with a few tricks like bookmarklets and support for publishers to provide links to embed the chat.

• HoverSearch Search results hover above the main page. Uses Transparent divs.

• maps.search.ch Apparently, every square inch of Switzerland exists in a computer model. Shows that a neatly rendered model can look better than an outright photo.

• Zuggest Excellent illustration of live search.

• Ripped Tickets Another live search.