Firefox shortcuts with Ubiquity
As Robert Scoble writes, it’s only for passionate internet users (at the moment anyway), but the Firefox plugin Ubiquity has awesome potential for changing the way we use the internet - watch this video to learn more.
Ubiquity is one of a number of tools currently knocking around that look into changing the way we interface and interact with the web. It aims to break down the barriers to mashups and allow the average user to, say embed maps in an email, by simply selecting some text, pressing CTRL-SPACE, and typing ‘map’:
This kind of tool has implications for all areas of web use and is well worth keeping an eye on. One day soon a tool similar to Ubiquity (if not Ubiquity itself), will emerge as a game-changer, and as web professionals we need to be considering where web use is headed; tools such as this (and the excellent work of Mozilla Labs in general) provide some good clues.
