Mozilla's Ubiquity makes mash-ups for the web

[drhowarddrfine]

Link (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210200903&subSection=All+Stories)
With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do."

With Ubiquity, a user can, for example, type a restaurant name in an e-mail, select the name, option-click to bring up the Ubiquity command line, type "map" to generate a Google Map centered on the selected restaurant, and then drag that map to embed it into the e-mail so it can be shared.

A Ubiquity user can also highlight apartment listing URLs on Craigslist and generate a map that shows where the selected listings are located.

The goal is to allow users to define their own commands, like macros than span applications.

[drhowarddrfine]

How to use it article (http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Make_the_Web_Do_Your_Bidding_With_Firefox_s_New_Ubiquity_UI)
More good info (http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/)

[scragar]

Trying it, and it really needs a way to sort the commands better, folders, delete options, move, something, I'm lost in a see of options, most of which I'd never use(amazon search? MSN search? And why are the "you must be in a rich text field to use this option" options listed right between options that don't care where you use them).

other than that I think I'm going to enjoy playing around with it.



URG!!!! not sure if this is Ubiquity or not, but my post just appeared about 10 times using quick reply, that never occurred before