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Pete Cashmore has posted about the 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins that he things are good.

He has split-up the plugins into two categories, for the blogger, and for the reader which includes:

Blogger

• AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
• Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.
• Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
• asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
• Codebox – Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.

Reader

• AJAX Comments 2.0 – Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.
• AJAX Google Video Search – Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.
• AJAX Shoutbox – Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.
• Cool Weather – Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.
• Currency Converter – Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.
• Google AJAX Search – Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second site such as your Flickr account.

[via Ajaxian]