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We've recently added ability to create user defined modules in KRL. The ability to create modules in native KRL adds a powerful tool for code reuse and abstraction that we're pretty excited about. Modules can be created for your own private use, or they can be published to our Public Module Directory for reuse by others.

A website designed to introduce and keep developers up to date about the very powerful but little known feature of greasemonkey support in KRL.

Kynetx is a cross-browser platform for browser extensions and apps that gives developers the tools to quickly create browser extensions that work on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Yesterday, the company announced a contest inviting developers to bring the "Share" button to Google Reader, WordPress.com, Blogger, Posterous, Google, Yahoo and Bing search results pages, Yelp and Google Places

Now you can add Facebook Send to many of your favorite sites thanks to Aaron Frost and Loic Devaux. The apps were both built within 12hours of my call for an app yesterday and make it very simple to send a website to any of your Facebook friends and groups, or to any email address.

Today a question about the size of the browser add-on market came up and more specifically, what kinds of things people used browser addons for. I spent a little time at AMO to try and find some answers--at least for Firefox.

In my last post, I outlined a few benefits that developers could gain from using KRL. Well and good, but so what? Are those benefits that matter? How do they relate to the other reasons programmers learn new languages like money and opportunity? In this post, I will talk about some of the big trends driving my thinking and informing the decisions around what KRL is and why it enables the abstractions that it does.

A lot of people ask me why I invented Kinetic Rule Language (KRL) instead of just using an existing language. There are a lot of answers to that question, but I want to get to some specifics.

Yesterday, Google released a Chrome browser extension that lets users block certain websites from showing up in their Google search results. That way, if you never want to see an eHow article again, you don't have to. Kynetx, a company that offers developers a single platform for building extensions for multiple browsers, saw the announcement and immediately offered $500 to the first person that could create an extension "with the same functionality for all 3 browsers and all 3 major search engines."

Less than a day later, the company has announced a winner and released the extensions.