Mozilla Labs announced the launch of 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.
According to Mozilla Labs,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.
Ubiquity 0.1 was released. It’s a prototype version, so install it at your own risk. Ubiquity 0.1
- 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. - Find and install new commands to extend your browser’s vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism
Source: Mozilla Labs.
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