What is Lily?
Lily is a browser-based visual programming environment. Programs are built 
graphically by connecting modules to add functionality, fetch and direct 
the flow of data, play sound or video, add interactivity or display 
results. Lily programs can be shared with other Lily users, installed as Firefox 
add-ons, run as standalone apps using XULrunner, or (with some limitations) 
be embedded in a web page. 


What modules are available?
There are over 150 modules available: web service modules for apis like 
Amazon, Flickr,  Wikipedia, Yahoo, etc; UI modules that wrap widgets from 
YUI, Scriptaculous, JQuery, Google Maps, etc as well as the browser's 
built-in UI elements; modules that offer privileged access to 
SQLite storage, sockets or the file system; graphics modules that 
encapsulate SVG and Canvas functionality and multimedia modules for 
playing sound and video. Modules are written in javascript (like Lily itself) 
and it's dead simple to write a module to do pretty much whatever you want.


How is Lily licensed?
Lily is free & open-source and will be released under the MIT license.


When will the public beta be ready?
I'm shooting for Spring. Drop me a line if you'd like to be informed when it's ready.