Showing posts with label Ubiquity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ubiquity. Show all posts

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Ubiquity

Of serious worth is the release of the Ubiquity prototype from the Mozilla Labs. Ubiquity
  • Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more. Ubiquity “command list” to see them all.
To me it appears to be a way to connect the disparate information of user generated content which has exploded since web 2.0. Can this be a mind map made physical enabling you to plough your way through the avalanche of junk which threatens to suffocate you in all its banality/superflousness/time wasting?

Further to this it allows you to:
  • Find and install new commands to extend your browser’s vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism
Its extendable! And what's more its Open Source! This needs some looking at.