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Odeo finally opens up for more registration. The slick online application for listening PodCast is very good at integrating media player with browser. However, you will be locked in one page when you are listening to a PodCast. I am usually not a fan of website with frames. In this case, a seperate frame will be very beneficial for currently playing podcast without interrupting the user's browsing.
As Gmail debuted last year, web developers are mesmerized by the dynamic user interface created using XMLHTTPREQUEST. Since then, lots of websites sprung out using AJAX. However, without using AJAX, you can also achieve the dynamic interface successfully via Javascript + hidden iframe. My boss has mentioned that before to me and I thought it's not "cool" enough. Now Google Maps are using this approach. There is an interesting read: Mapping Google. Also, some articles illustrated the design of Gmail and Google Suggest. Adaptivepath has published one article about the whole shibang
