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Mozilla unveiled a new offering called Ubiquity yesterday, an experiment connecting the web with language.  It’s designed to let you control a whole lot more using your keyboard.  For instance - you navigate to a page and want to share it with Dave. Open Ubiquity using a keyboard shortcut, type in ‘email this to dave’ and hit enter. All of a sudden it opens GMail and has the email already written.

Ubiquity can do almost anything, it all depends on the list of commands you subscribe to (you get to pick which commands it responds to).  Ubiquity will soon become ubiquitous - commands need to be better moderated, though.  Because Ubiquity commands do anything, someone at Mozilla needs to get on the ball and get their trusted Ubiquity command system up and running. If you add Ubiquity and add a list of commands you want to use, you’ll see a quite scary warning screen. Do your research and make sure you can trust the commands you’re subscribing to.

This will make life easier and I can’t wait to see Ubiquity as it continues to develop. Check it out and let me know what you think.  I’ve used Ubiquity to twitter, email, look up maps, add stuff to my calendar, and there are thousands of other commands I can use.  I can’t wait to see what sort of Ubiquity commands come out in the future - it will literally change the way I interact with my computer.

With time, Ubiquity will become ubiquitous.

Take care,

Colin