Mozilla Ubiquity: Wow.

motivez · 08-27-2008, 08:45 AM

Ubiquity looks amazing, and it's only in the very early prototype stages.

Ubiquity for Firefox on Vimeo

I'm really looking forward to using it, I'm going to install it when I get home tonight.

I honestly think this is going to be the next big thing, and if it grows like wildfire (as I expect it to), it's really going to dramatically change the way the web works..

Phantom · 08-27-2008, 11:44 AM

very interesting

The goal seems to be to sort of one-up google in a way. I like the ideas, but they have quite a bit of work to do to get something like that to go mainstream.

Ardentfrost · 08-28-2008, 12:09 PM

I'm using this now, and so far I'm really impressed. Someone needs to write a command for liberty lounge so we can make new threads really quick

kombayn · 08-29-2008, 06:43 AM

^Yeah it's a crazy gadget, it can be the next thing but the computer itself is going to have to progress for it to need a feature like this one. (I'm thinking touch-screen computers like the ones on the movie Minority Report.

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Ardentfrost · 08-29-2008, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by kombayn

^Yeah it's a crazy gadget, it can be the next thing but the computer itself is going to have to progress for it to need a feature like this one. (I'm thinking touch-screen computers like the ones on the movie Minority Report. )

Well, I dunno about that. I mean, the point is, as the name suggests, to make the internet more ubiquitous. Right now the internet (and particularly how you access it) is very flat. If you want to go to wikipedia, you type wikipedia in your browser then you use wikipedia's search feature to find what you're looking for. You're searching/typing multiple times to get to things.

I see the future of ubiquity where it will combine things quickly. You type something like "review Sushi House in Atlanta, map it, email to John, Fred, and Susan, add to calendar Friday night 7PM, message Hey guys, we haven't hung out in a while. Let's go to sushi on Friday, I heard this place is really good"

I mean, that is accessing a bunch of things at once. Everything links back on itself and combines to become exactly what you need out of it. That is truly ubiquitous internet usage.

Dumpy Dooby · 08-30-2008, 04:11 AM

This extension makes me wet.

Scrum · 08-30-2008, 11:43 AM

That looks amazing.

I'm going to wait until they have a stable version released before I download it though.

Ardentfrost · 08-30-2008, 02:02 PM

The stability isn't the problem, it's just how much it can do. Like it only supports a couple dozen sites upon install.