Mozilla Ubiquity

Came across a short review of Mozilla's new toy, Ubiquity today. It's very early days, and by the look of it will be of greatest interest to those folk who live their lives on the internet, organising, planning and the rest.

From what I can see it takes multiple step processes that one typically uses with the internet and makes then executable in plain language and within other applications. So, it's possible to put a map in an email simply by typing the command "Map it".

Of their new product, the developers say:

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.

Looks very good. I'll probably wait a while before I leap in and try it, but there may be braver souls out there than I who are ready and willing to try the Alpha release.