Ubiquity
Mozilla have launched a new (experimental) browser plug-in that could well change the way we interact with the web. Most people do not have an easy way to manage all the many resources of the their interwebs, nor do they have the skills to simplify multiple tasks. For the most part they are left tswitching between sites, performing repeated actions, resulting in some wasted time.
Traditionally, you tell the browser where you want to go, either by search or by typing an address into the bar. Ubiquity is an attempt to change that, an attempt to find a new interface that could make it possible for everyone to do all the common actions and multiple web tasks more quickly and easily.
Ubiquity will enable you to tell Firefox what you want it to do by simply typing a series commands (in plain language) into it’s input box.
So, for example, if you wanna tweet ‘I love rubbishcorp®’, you just write: twitter I love rubbishcorp®, in to box and you’re done, twitter updated. Or, if you wanna send an email, you just type: email hello to rubbishcorp®, assuming rubbishcorp® is in your GMail contacts (which of course it will be), you’ll be taken to your Gmail account and all you gotta do is click send.
Smashing.
Here’s a confusing and overly long (techy) demo:
Download here.
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