August 27, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Innovation made simple
If you’re like me you constantly have a new ideas for web technologies. The point of most of these technologies is to just keep things simple and in order to keep things simple user interface is critical. Mozilla (who developed the Firefox browser) has just launched Ubiquity.
Mozilla says that the goals of this new tool are:
“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.”
This demo shows a few easy example of how Ubiquity can be used to simplify your web experience. This is innovation made simple.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
