Jeffrey Zeldman: On Valentine’s Day the U.S. Government granted a patent on AJAX to an obscure web shop that promptly announced plans to “license” the technology thousands of sites and products are using. What happens next is anyone’s guess, but I suspect it will involve lawyers.

I like it! I like Google Page Creator, that is.

I clicked on the link. I logged in with my GMail account. I agreed to the terms and conditions. And boom, I'm right at the main page, where I can create my home page. Less than a minute later, I'm done.

Go take a look. At http://weiqigao.googlepages.com/home.

Here's the screen shot of a working session of Google Page Creator:

From a UI perspective, the features provided in this tool is comparable to the features I normally use when I'm in Microsoft Word (the stuff that's present since Word 2.0, Title, Heading, Bold, etc.)

I still need to figure out

• How to save the created page somewhere else
• What to do when the googlepages.com server is down
• How to control who can or cannot read the page
• If they support some kind of automatic link creation
• If they support link migration (BTW, have you noticed how on Windows XP if you create a link on the desktop and you subsequently move the original to a different spot, the desktop link will follow the move?)

I can't wait when Google Presentation Creator comes out!