ShiftSpace 0.11 is going to be a whole new level for the project as we have been basically re-writing the whole platform using object oriented programming and extensively using the Mootools Javascript framework. We are excited to announce the ShiftSpace Documentations are now available for you to go through, download and start hacking on. We have been focusing on getting you something to put your hands on and start developing your own spaces with and we also have a really simple tutorial that would walk you through developing your first space and the key concepts for doing that. To get started right away, you can download our developer nightly build or use Subversion to download the 0.11 branch of our repository which include the manual files and everything you need to setup a ShiftSpace hacking environment on your local machine.

We will continue on porting the rest of the spaces and features over onto the new 0.11 architecture and then launch a new official release, keeping the active release up to date with where the platform is going in general.

Much respect to David and Dan who have been practically committing code to the repository non-stop every two hours for the past three weeks.
enjoy,

The ShiftSpace Team.

Last night we (Dudu, Avital, Dan & Mushon) put in some of our most enjoyable hours of work yet, squeezing bugs out of 0.09 to deliver it to you today. The highlight of this release is the Highlights space. It allows you to highlight text leaving a colored markup or a couple of them on a page as a shift.

This has got to be the most complicated space to date as it really messes with the guts of HTML markup, but its interface is pretty much WYSIWYG. Thanks to the brilliance of David “Dudu” Buchbut and Avital Oliver, who spearheaded the development, this is one of our biggest developments to date. We hope you enjoy it and are looking forward to seeing your highlights.

What else is new?

• The annoying SourceShift images bug is fixed, now this open ended space is pretty robust and we would love to see what you’ll do with it.
• We’ve started to ask for e-mail addresses on signup. Initially we didn’t want to because your privacy really matters to us. But then some of you (naturally) forgot your passwords, and there was no way for us to retrieve them. We still don’t have a password retrieval process, but that should be coming soon. Please use whatever e-mail you want for this, we will not send you anything but what you explicitly ask us to send. (With that being said we would love for you to join our mailing list and offer any ideas you might have to make ShiftSpace better)

Known issues (to be fixed in 0.10):

• Highlighting across tables might break the table in strange and interesting ways
• SourceShift has scrolling issues on Windows and doesn’t handle CSS-encoded background images correctly
• You still need to refresh the page sometimes after creating a shift

There are definitely more issues which are not ‘known’, so we’ll need your help on that. When you see a bug or find a case where ShiftSpace doesn’t work as you expect it to, please click the little bug icon on the console [] and let us know what happened and where in as much details as you can. Thanks!

Install ShiftSpace version 0.09 on our main page. If you’re upgrading you should get an update alert in the console (press [shift] + [space]). If you already have Greasemonkey installed, you can simply click this link to install.

The next release will include the much awaited Trails feature that would allow you to trail webpages and shifts into information maps on top of the web (exciting stuff). David Nolen has joined us recently and has already come up with an amazing prototype. If you’ll follow the discussion list you’ll hear about some more interesting stuff coming up, like the ShiftSpace commission program (in which with the support of Turbulence.org we will commission some new spaces and trails, more on that soon), the ShiftSpace API, P2P architecture and more exciting stuff.

On a personal level, this has been the most fun we’ve had working on the project and we hope you’ll join us…

The ShiftSpace team is very pleased to announce its latest release, version 0.08. Before getting to the details, we’d like to welcome our two newest developers who contributed to this release, Avital Oliver and David “Dudu” Buchbut. Avital made several important contributions to the code, but also insisted on a more deliberate testing process, which has been very needed.

This release is our biggest both in terms of software development and community building. In addition to bringing Avital and Dudu onboard, we hosted our first developer hackshop two Sundays ago to great success. We hope to include more developers in future iterations of the software. We’re very excited to see this recent growth in the project.

Okay, back to the release. If you already have ShiftSpace installed, just click this link to upgrade. Otherwise click the install button and follow the directions at www.shiftspace.org.

To celebrate the new year 2-007, we’re very pleased to announce the release of ShiftSpace version 0.07.

In this release, in addition to a few important bug fixes, is support fo persistent logins. We still haven’t gotten around to adding a “remember me” option to the login page, so for now just be careful about using ShiftSpace on a shared machine.

Hi friends,

We are proud to announce the new version of ShiftSpace. This time it does not only bug fix version, but we actually have new features there. This is what what waits for you in ShiftSpace v.0.06:

The folks behind Greasemonkey—the magic behind the scenes of ShiftSpace—have recently released version 0.6.6 of their excellent Firefox extension. This release adds support for Firefox 2.0 and also adds a Spanish language localization. There’s also a fancy new userscript installation window, that no longer requires users to (confusingly) right click links to install. Instead, just click on the link as you would normally and you’ll get a couple options to either install or view the source of the usercript.

Bravo to the GM team!

We’re pleased to announce a new version of ShiftSpace is ready for download. The previous one had a bug that prevented new users from opening the console and using §. This release fixes that up. If you’re running a previous version, or if you want to try ShiftSpace out for the first time, install the latest version by clicking this link—ShiftSpace 0.05 userscript—and choosing “Install” (If you don’t have that option, you may need to install Greasemonkey first.) This release also does a better job caching stuff, which will make things run slightly faster.

After a major reworking of the server side code, we’re proud to offer our second official release. Install the latest version (even if you already have version 0.03) by right-clicking this link—ShiftSpace 0.04 userscript—and choosing “Install user script…” (If you don’t have that option, you may need to install Greasemonkey first.) This release fixes two very critical bugs that made 0.03 more of a proof of concept than a working prototype.

Hey guys, and thanks for all the great feedback we’ve been getting from you on ShiftSpace. To put code where our mouth is at, we are making big revisions to version 0.03 to have a stable version available for use soon. The current version (0.03) can illustrate a bit of the § (ShiftSpace) user interface but still requires some imagination to be a good representation of what § is about.

After an intense last minute sprint, we’re proud to finally offer actual (kind of) working code! We organized a last minute Installation Party at the closing of the Ars Electronica festival and installed the first user’s platform on-stage.

The code is still very buggy, but the way we see it we’ll only be able to improve ShiftSpace with the assistance of early adopters. Beyond using the software, we’d very much like to hear from you on the discussion list. We’re going to be working hard to get future versions ready, so keep an eye out for version 0.04.