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  • Ubiquity Commands

    11:32:47 am on August 28, 2008
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    Have you heard about Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs? If not, YOU NEED TO check it out. I believe this is absolutely going to change the web how we know it. Is it web3.0? I’m not sure, but I bet someone will come up with a buzzword for it.

    Don’t bother reading the page at first, just watch the video (embedded below) to get an idea about how powerful this really is:

    Basically Ubiquity lets you build your own on-demand mashups. Not in the sense that yahoo pipes does, but in the sense that any user can just type what they want to do, and embed that in an email or perform actions like calculate math shown on a page without cut & paste, etc. I’d call it micro-mashups.

    Well, I built my first Ubiquity command to see how easy it would be, and it’s super simple. (Ok, I just took someone else’s code as a base - since it’s all OS anyway - and changed/added some things.)

    How to use it:

    1. Install Ubiquity Firefox Extension
      Reboot your browser (all FF extensions require this, which is a pain in my opinion, but the good news is that any command you subscribe to won’t require the browser reboot)
    2. Subscribe to the command. Give it a few seconds to about minute (mine took a bit even though it’s a fast computer) to process in your browser.
    3. Right click any word on any page, and select “Ubiquity -> Shop” OR use control+space to bring up the Ubiquity menu and type “shop X” where X represents whatever you want to search for prices on.

    Here’s more commands:

    I’d love to hear feedback, folks.

     

Comments

  • Colum 4:53 am on August 29, 2008 | #

    That is the coolest! Thanks for sharing!

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