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.

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…

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.

In this release we’ve fixed many bugs and have completely redesigned the shift creation interface. To create a shift, simply press the shift key to activate a ShiftSpace context menu. Hovering over this menu will reveal actions that can be performed, each space with its own devoted sub-menu.

The design of the console has been updated as well, with some handsome new icons provided by Mushon. Finally, this release includes a major refactoring of how the code is organized in response to feedback we got from Avital. We think it will prove much easier to hack on. In terms of space development, this release saw a major overhaul for Notes and some important bug fixing for SourceShift (which may still be a little rough).

The next release of ShiftSpace will focus on a feature we think is very important. Inspired by one of the original hypertext theorists, ShiftSpace will soon include Trails—user-created hypertextual maps of the web—allowing shifts from different pages to be linked together to form more coherent, in-depth discussions.

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.

This version includes the first release for a new space called Source Shift, which allows you to take the html source code and modify it as you wish. Think of it as a read/write enhanced take on your browser’s view source function. It’s far more open-ended than the other spaces, so we’re excited to see what people will do with it. Just shift-click the page to access the ShiftSpace context menu. Here is an example (requires version 0.07).
Sourceshift is far from being bullet-proof and with the diversities of pages in the wild-wild-web it is bound to work on some pages and not work so well on others. We will try to improve it in the future and as always encourage you to use the ‘Report a Bug’ link in the console and let us know when you think things can and should work better than they currently do.
To install ShiftSpace follow the directions on the front page. To upgrade, just click on the Install ShiftSpace button to get version 0.07.

Happy 2007!

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:

• Set your shifts Private / Public:
  Use the icons to the left of your shift (in the console) to toggle between Private (only I can see the shift I made) and Public (Everybody can see my shifts)
• Trash A post:
  This was a feature asked by one of our users and was high in our to-do list for a long time. Now you should not think twice about leaving a shift on a pages since you can always trash it. Click the Trash icon to do exactly that. You will be prompted to make sure you trash it by mistake.
• Bug Fix 1: Firefox 2.0 compatibility - fixes the association between shifts and pages.
• Bug Fix 2: Some shifts appeared in the console but couldn’t be turned on - thats fixed now.

With the new version of Greasemonkey, all you have to do is click this link and then click ‘Install’, refresh and you’re upgraded!

Join the announcement and discussion lists, report bugs, comment the site and mail us (info [at] shiftspace [dot] org) to let us know what you think.
cheers,

Dan & Mushon

Bravo to the GM team!

Included in this version:

• Notes - leave virtual post-it notes with your annotations on websites.
• ImageSwap - grab any image on the web and swap it with any other image.

When you browse the web with ShiftSpace on, and you stumble upon a shift (page modification) you will see the small ShiftSpace icon (§) pop in the bottom left corner of the screen, notifying you there are shifts available on this page.

To invoke ShiftSpace (and see the modifications) hold down the shift key and press your space bar. This will open the console, allowing you to toggle shifts on and off. Check out our wiki to learn more about using the platform.

We are working on version 0.06 now. Expect more features and more bug fixing. And please do report bugs, it allows us to fix the code and helps greatly with development. Big thanks to Lior for helping us figure out what was going on in 0.04. (Hey that rhymes!)

Enjoy.

Our first two spaces (applications for ShiftSpace) are included in this version:

• Notes - leave virtual post-it notes with your annotations on websites.
• ImageSwap - grab any image on the web and swap it with any other image.

When you browse the web with ShiftSpace on, and you stumble upon a shift (page modification) you will see the small ShiftSpace icon (§) pop in the bottom left corner of the screen, notifying you there are shifts available on this page.

To invoke ShiftSpace (and see the modifications) hold down the shift key and press your space bar. This will open the console, allowing you to toggle shifts on and off. Check out our wiki to learn more about using the platform.

We are starting to work on version 0.05 now, expect more features and more bug fixing. And please do report bugs (there is a direct link in the console) to help us make § better.

Nevertheless, good things are ahead. We’ve learned a lot from version 0.03 and are working on making v0.04 worthy of all the attention § has been getting ever since the Ars Electronica presentation.
We will keep you all posted, so please sign up for the announcement and discussion lists
and bear with us as we’re teaching § to do it’s first steps.

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.

For those of you who weren’t able to see our presentations at Ars Electronica, we recommend Regine’s (We-Make-Money-Not-Art) review. We’ll be posting the materials from that presentation as soon as we take a short break to celebrate.

To install ShiftSpace there are three simple steps:

Pre-installs

• Install the Firefox browser Ver. 1.5+ (if you haven’t done it yet)
• Install the Greasmonkey Extension (restart your browser)
• Go to the ShiftSpace homepage.

Install the ShiftSpace userscript

• Right click this link: Install ShiftSpace version 0.03 and choose ‘install user script’

Create your user account

• Refresh your page
• Hold down the ’shift’ key and press ’space’ to open the ShiftSpace console.
• Sign up with a username and a passsword. (if you already have a username just login with your password)
• Welcome to ShiftSpace and enjoy your stay.

This is a very exciting moment for us and we look forward for you to join the ShiftSpace community.

Enjoy,
Dan & Mushon