This Financial Times article about the downfall of MySpace and its conflict with News Corp is pretty funny for all kinds of anecdotal reasons, but my favorite bit is this:
Former MySpace executives say News Corp dragged its feet over implementing Ajax, a program that allows users to send a message, an e-mail or to post a comment on their friends' pages without having to open a new browser window.
Oh really? So that's what Ajax is!
How else would you quickly and simply explain what ajax is/does? I think that's actually a reasonably good summation...
posted by Hugh at 7:33 AM on December 9, 2009 
i grew up thinking ajax was "stronger than dirt"
posted by steve at 2:52 PM on December 9, 2009
substitute "program" with "technology", and "without having to open a new browser window" with "without having to reload the page", and i'd say that's a pretty good, quick explanation of what AJAX does for a mainstream, non-techie audience, in an article about the financial aspect of MySpace
posted by pfranks at 4:38 PM on December 9, 2009
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