ubiquity « Plankhead

If you only have 30 seconds to read my explosion of words, here’s the synopsis: Get Ubiquity. Now. It’s still in Alpha and therefore has some rough edges, but despite that, it is the best thing to ever happen to Firefox. And if you don’t have Firefox, why the hell have you not gotten Firefox yet?

Now for the long version. Ubiquity, according to Wikipedia, “allows web users to create mashups of other web services without requiring much technical background.” Thank you, Wikipedia, for this accurate description which completely and entirely misses the point. They also state, “Ubiquity is a collection of easy and quick natural-language-derived commands that allow users to get information and relate the same to current and other webpages.” That’s more like it. Yeah, I should really edit the article to clarify those two sentences. Brb.

"Goo"gling with Ubiquity - OMG AWESOME!

Okay, there we go. Now that Wikipedia agrees with me, it must be true, so Ubiquity is a Firefox extension that lets you type natural-sounding commands at your browser to make it do things that would normally require 3722438 clicks. And it is the best thing like ever.

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