Ubiquity is like a command line for Firefox, where commands can be community contributed and tied to web services. It’s nifty, but I already have yubnub installed in my address bar and the habit of using that built in. I know how useful it can be if they do decide to integrate it into the next release of Firefox, though. I don’t know how the average user perceives the web, but the web as omnipotent command line is a really convenient model. Leave it to these prodigies to bring it to the masses.
One of the difficulties of the traditional CLI is actually learning commands, but it’s nothing habituation through usage won’t take care of. As far as the web goes, I am satisfied with a few yubnub commands:
- gim [image] (google image search)
- gm [address] (google map search)
- jd5 [java class] (java 5 api search, actually bound to another yubnub command that makes use of google feeling lucky)
- wp [wiki article] (wikipedia search)
- yt [video] (youtube search)
Together with Gmail and Bloglines, this is how I’m wired. The developer emphasizes how disjoint the way people use the web is now, but I have a nice arrangement with the above, if I manage to avoid distraction from random videos and wiki articles, that is…
