Ubiquity: Connect the Web with Language
August 28, 2008
Ubiquity is a natural-language command based interface that allows you to accomplish common tasks from your browser easier and faster.
The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:
* Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
* Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
* Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
* Extend the browser functionality easily.
The technology has significant potential, but I don’t see any features currently available that are particularly exciting to me personally.
Introducing Ubiquity (Mozilla Labs)
Ubiquity Tutorial (Mozilla Wiki)
Make the Web Do Your Bidding With Firefox’s New Ubiquity UI (Webmonkey)
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity (TechCrunch)
Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox (Ars Technica)
