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Ubiquity - Connecting the Web with language

Posted by Nazly on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 16:54:42 (GMT +0530)

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Couple of days back I heard about Ubiquity, an experiment by Mozilla Labs to connect the Web with language that would make Web tasks much more easy and fun to deal with for an average user. I installed Ubiquity and I'm already fascinated by how certain painful day to day tasks can be done easily by combining few commands. The initial version, Ubiquity 0.1 comes with loads of features including working with maps and insert maps to anywhere you want, translate on-page, search google, search wikipedia, digg, twitter, lookup and insert yelp review, get the weather, syntax highlight any code you find, convert a URL to tinyurl and the list goes on. Its definietly a worther try.

Make sure you go through the Introduction to Ubiquity which has most of the information you need to know about Ubiquity. Don't forget to watch the video which explains how easy it is to do certain Web tasks using Ubiquity.

Also read the Ubiquity 0.1 User Tutorial which has some nice tips on how to use Ubiquity and also has some valuable information about how to extend Ubiquity by adding new commands.

Have fun..


Comments

Did you able to get this work on Ubuntu?
Posted by Lakshan on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 17:50:25 (GMT +0530)

Yeah I only installed it on my Ubuntu laptop. Works very well except that at times I couldn't clear the previous map results on certain instances. Apart from that it works great.
Just now when I booted my laptop and ran FF3 there was an update. Seems the guys are getting the fixes updated frequently.
Posted by Nazly on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 22:32:36 (GMT +0530)



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