Mozilla Labs Ubiquity Offers User-Centric Web Mash-Ups
Category: InternetPosted: August 27, 2008 04:04AM
Author: jammin
We all use the web to make our lives that little bit easier, but does jumping around from site to site to achieve a very simple task seem like the most efficient way to get what you want done? Mozilla labs launched a new plug-in yesterday called Ubiquity, which aims to give the user an interface to tell their browser what they want it to do. Though still in the early stages of development, Ubiquity already provides some quite useful functions. For example, if you see something on a website that you think a friend might like, instead of having to copy and paste it into a new email, you can highlight the content and tell Ubiquity you want to mail it to one of your contacts (though it is limited to GMail at the moment). The introduction video on the Mozilla Labs page explains things much more neatly than I could here, so I suggest you go and watch it. This is a plug-in that has some interesting potential, so I'll be keeping a close eye on its development.
