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Shiftspace for Firefox 3.0

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

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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