Ubiquity,firefox,mozilla,awesome stuff Ubiquity: Mozilla's New Killer App

Ubiquity: Mozilla's New Killer App

posted by schism 1 year 2 months 4 weeks ago • 985 views

tags: Ubiquity, firefox, mozilla, awesome stuff

Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

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All this innovating, for free? What do they want from us?

written by Abducted

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your SOULS!

written by sillma | 1 year 2 months 4 weeks ago | CH

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And then, when I want to go out and meet my friend at the café, I call up Ubiquity and type GO NORTH > OPEN DOOR > GO NORTH > TAKE KEY > OPEN DOOR WITH KEY > USE KEY ON DOOR > OPEN DOOR > GO NORTH

Ubiquity: we make integrated web-use intoa text adventure game.

written by Babymech

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still pretty clunky. Makes me nostalgic for the future.

written by Trancecoach

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>> ^Abducted:
All this innovating, for free? What do they want from us?

Our souls

written by FNORDcinco | 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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>> ^Babymech:
And then, when I want to go out and meet my friend at the café, I call up Ubiquity and type GO NORTH > OPEN DOOR > GO NORTH > TAKE KEY > OPEN DOOR WITH KEY > USE KEY ON DOOR > OPEN DOOR > GO NORTH

Ubiquity: we make integrated web-use intoa text adventure game.

BEST. WEB EXPERIENCE. EVER.

written by xgabex | 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Linux is powerfull. Its power comes form text. Knowledge of that text. GUI's bypass text. Provide visual ques as to possible text. If youve learnt and memorised all comands, your fine. IF you've a gui, you can see the comands even if your not using them.

Text is powerfull. High learning curve. this is a user barrier.

written by Thylan

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Just saw this on another site and damn it's sifted. Still *promote. And I'm gonna try it out right now.

written by Deano

| 8 months ago | CH

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, August 28th, 2008 12:40pm PDT - promote requested by Deano.

written by siftbot

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Seems a bit similar to Greasemonkey, but with more typing involved.

written by Janus | 8 months ago | CH

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Greasemonkey is cool and I use it but that works on a site by site basis, often without the need for any user intervention. This seems more about creating mashups on the fly and saving time in the process. There's a good example in the video of selecting a number of addresses and then typing "map-these" to get a mapped view.

Some things are working well but some aren't for me - this might be due to my browser setup but it's all quite intriguing.

written by Deano

| 8 months ago | CH

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>> ^Janus:
Seems a bit similar to Greasemonkey, but with more typing involved.

Not really. Greasemonkey only works after you install a specific script to handle a specific task on a specific webpage. For example, the De-ad Facebook strips ads from Facebook feeds. You, the user need to be proactive to use it.

Ubiquity has a list of commands you can use (which can be auto-updated) to handle useful things. Email this to someone. Map this place. Translate this. Calculate 339/108. Ubiquity is reactive to what you, the user, want at that moment.

The key is that it combines webpages or webpage actions together.

written by oohahh

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