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Shiftspace for Firefox 3.0

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Phil Crissman
on June 17, 2008
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I’ve been lamenting the loss of Shiftspace silently and sullenly ever since I upgraded to the beta versions of Firefox 3 last year. I really didn’t want to downgrade and wait, though, since I was experiencing a few unhappy issues with Firefox 2 on Mac OS which happily disappeared with version 3. So, I did without Shiftspace, cool though it may be.

No longer: there is a version of Shiftspace available which works with Firefox 3.0… you can find it here; you will want to click on the “release userscript” in the bottom right-ish corner.

Should I add you’ll need Greasemonkey, first? Well, I guess I have, now.

While searching for this, I happened upon an app called Lily, which is a visual programming environment written in Javascript:

Lily is a browser-based, visual programming environment that lets people create programs graphically, without writing code, by drawing connections between data, images, sounds, text and graphics. Lily’s cross-platform, free, open source and is written in JavaScript. Did we mention it’s fun?

What does it all mean? I don’t know! Isn’t “it’s fun” enough for you?

The New OS

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Phil Crissman
on May 28, 2008
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Dave Winer recently wrote:

Twitter is the new OS. For the moment. It’s like the Apple /// in the days before the IBM PC. Remember the Apple ///? (Not many do.)

I think that’s a good insight, and I like the comparison to the early days of the PC (really the pre-PC). But I don’t think Twitter is it.

What I think is coming is going to be more like a jumble of Greasemonkey and Shiftspace. Though I don’t think either of those are “it” — at least, not yet.
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Turn FriendFeed Into A Twitter Client

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Phil Crissman
on May 22, 2008
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Internet Duct Tape has a great Greasemonkey script which will effectively turn FriendFeed into a Twitter client; adds the ability to tweet directly from FriendFeed, complete with a 140-character counter to keep you within Twitter parameters.

Still “client” is a bit misleading… to be able to see the messages of everyone you follow on Twitter, you would still need to follow them on FriendFeed (if they’re there) or add them as imaginary friends… which as I said before, is actually a really sweet feature. The same source also has a downloadable script to do just that; if you are on windows.