With Web 2.0 there’s so many ‘ Long Tail’ possibilities for content that you can result in too many visual elements on the screen. Print, email, bookmarks, comments, trackbacks, tags and metadata. Applying Ajax creatively can allow for a much more focused experience.

Social bookmarking sites are popular these days, allowing alternative (to email) ways to share content. You could potentially display dozens of icons to sites like del.icio.us., digg, furl, Newsvine etc. Scroll to the bottom of the and see how the “Share this” icon reveals a bunch of social bookmarking icons, and email tab. Other tabs could be ‘blog this’ or ‘get code’… Nice way to add a lot of functionality without cluttering the page.

Thanks to Alex King for the ‘Share This’ plug-in for WordPress.