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Aug 29, 05:44 pm: Ubiquity makes me just a little giddy inside

Straight from Mozilla Labs comes Ubiquity. If you are a Mac user, think of it as Quicksilver for the Internet. If you’re a Windows user, think of it as…Okay. You’re on your own metaphor-wise.

Ubiquity makes it keystroke easy to search sites (like ebay or wikipedia), do a quick math problem, add a link to del.icio.us or email (GMail only, kids) to someone on your contacts lists. Though it has a bit of that command line for the web feel, it is pretty non-geeky. Just type “commands-list” in the interface and you’ll see the range of what you can do.

Now, I’m trying to imagine socially-good ubiquity commands. Anyone have any thoughts?


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Marnie Webb  | 

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  1. justin

    A command to find nearby social service orgs that provide assistance would be rad. Imagine highlighting the word “foreclosure”, typing “help”, and getting a list of agencies that can provide counseling.


    Aug 29, 07:57 pm

  2. marnie webb

    Nice idea — though I wonder how that would be different from just using the Google search command and then mapping something. Maybe it’s command line access to search 211 services or something similar.

    I was also thinking of something that searched Social Actions for an action related to keywords in a new story. Sort of like the social actions widget but at the control of the web page viewer rather than the website owner.


    Aug 29, 08:02 pm