Not exactly a newsbite that will change your day, but Flickr has just switched from using Flash to DHTML/AJAX on some of their pages. And they got to talk about it during the AJAX summitt. For those of you out of the loop, AJAX is Web Buzzword of The Month(tm).

Personally, I didn’t like how they used Flash on their site, and I welcome the improvement. But it’s interesting to note how useability improvements (Flickr, Google Maps) are linked to cool new geekery tech, afterall asynchronous JavaScript is not exactly the topic of conversation in most circles. Sometimes technology is more than just technology.

I promise a labnote about AJAX sometime in the future, but right now I’m trying out geocoding.