ShiftSpace is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively
annotating, editing and shifting the web. While the Internet's design is
widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users
interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The
web has followed the physical transformation of the city's social center
from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace
attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the
web.
After installing a browser plugin, by pressing the [shift] + [space] keys,
a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page
to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and
interventions ‚ which we call Shifts. Users can choose between several
authoring tools we're working to develop ‚ which we call Spaces. Some are
utilitarian (like Notes and Highlights) and some are more experimental
interventionist (like ImageSwap and SourceShift). Users are invited to
create & share Shifts and to build new Spaces. The developping team
believes not only in 'User Generated Content' but in a 'User Generated
Interface'.