Filed under “interesting moments”:

bard: btw, SP won.
ivan: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
bard: right.

I didn't post about 0.9, the most significant release in a while, and I didn't post about 0.9.1, its first refresh. Another bit of news has come in, and the list-of-thing-I-should-write-about has become just a tad too big to keep postponing...

SamePlace was one of the three grand-prize winners at the Extend Firefox 2 Contest, together with Shareaholic and Minimap. There isn't much to add to the the official mozilla.com post, except a big thank you to those who believe in SamePlace and keep devoting time and attention to it, by testing, coding, helping out newbies, verifying bugs, giving suggestions, translating—you rock big time and it would take a much better writer than me to do justice to all that with a simple blog post—and another thank you to the notable people who deemed SamePlace worth of the prize.

(Update: ok, ok, perhaps I should have also added that there were no 1st/2nd/3rd/nth prizes, despite how they look like on the mozilla.com post to the speed reader, results in both the grand prize and runner-up categories are simply sorted alphabetically.)

The Mozilla platform is in great shape. XMPP seems to be quickly turning from the future of instant messaging into its present, one giant at a time. SamePlace is at the crossing point—probably an interesting place to be in the next months. :-) If you're looking for an open source project to join where people can push the envelope of what's possible and still have fun and not take themselves too seriously, just ping us.