My friend Harry just mailed me a link to Mozilla Lab’s latest experiment called Ubiquity. With Ubiquity you can use common language to get your browser do the work for you. For example, without having to be a web developer, you can create an email mashup containing words of inviting a friend to a cafe, include a map how to get there, add a review of the place and add the whole date to your calendar – all by using simple language commands. No more separate searching for web pages and copying and pasting links on the senders side and visiting lots of different pages on the receivers.
Ubiquity allows utililising the vast resources of the Web through simple common language instructions; it could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. Would be great for mobile devices which don’t provide the space and scope of desktop or laptop resources (eg keyboard, mouse, large screen). Even on a small mobile phone it doesn’t take much to type a word to tell your browser what you want it to do; just type ‘map’ and the name of the restaurant while in gmail, hit enter and the browser not only looked for the map but also entered it into your mail. Brilliant stuff.
