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The Ultimate List of Custom Ubiquity Verbs

2008-09-06T17:56:30Z

With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole new UI. The standard commands, or "verbs", that come with Ubiquity are great. Yet we couldn't help but want more. Developers have been working around the clock to produce some fantastic custom verbs for Ubiquity. Here is ReadWriteWeb's list of the top picks of custom Ubiquity verbs!

]]> Media

Ubiquity already comes with built in search commands for Youtube, Amazon, and Flickr. Here are our top picks for searching media sites using custom Ubiquity verbs:

Last.FM - Allows users to search the Last.FM music network for artists pages.
Seeq - Search Seeqpod for music.
Vimeo - Allows users to search Vimeo for matching video results.
Stickam - Watch the livestream of your Stickam friends no matter what page you're on.
Netflix Search - Search Netflix for movies.

Social Networks

So far Ubiquity only allows you to interact with one social network: Twitter. With these custom verbs you'll be able interact with more popular social networks.

Ping. FM - Update your default Ping.FM status.
Jaiku - Update your Jaiku status.
Identica - Update your identi.ca status
Facebook - Update your Facebook status or locate a friend.
FriendFeed - Post a link or comment to your FriendFeed stream.
Twitter and Link Shortner - Extends Ubiquity's default Twitter functionality to include a link shortening command.
Myspace Person Search - Search for someone on Myspace.

Social Sharing and Bookmarking Sites

Outside of Digg, there are no other ways to share news and links with friends. So for those of you on Reddit, Delicious, and other related sites, we have just the verbs for you!

StumbleUpon - Stumble the current page you're viewing. Requires StumbleUpon extension.
Sphinn - Submit an article to Sphinn.
Reddit - Submit a link to Reddit
Twine - Post an article to Twine.
Delicious - Bookmark an article with tags to your delicious account.
Share On - Share a link on any of the following sites: Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, Slashdot, or Fark.
Most Popular on Delicious - Get a quick overview of the current 10 most popular delicious bookmarks.
Google Bookmark - Add the current page you're viewing to your Google Bookmarks.
Instapaper - Save a page for later to your Instapaper account.
Soup.io - Bookmark a page to your Soup.io account.
Tumblr - Share a ton of link love to your Tumblelog.
Check Slashdot - Get a quick overview of either three of the latest articles on Slashdot or any number of articles that you specify.

Notable Verbs

While searching for the best Ubiquity verbs we came across a ton that were great, but couldn't be categorized. Without further ado here are other notable verbs:

Subscribe via Google Reader
Multiple URL Shortners (TinyURL, isgd, Bitly, Hurl)
EveryStock Photo Search
Find Movie Times Near You
W3C Validator
Torrent Search
30 Boxes
Remember The Milk

And The Verbs Keep Coming

We're sure you'll be able to find a ton of new Ubiquity verbs to subscribe to. What we'd like to know is what verbs you're already using and what verbs you hope to see in the near future. To start the list, we're already using quite a few of the built in verbs and most of the social media custom verbs listed here. In the future we'd like to see verbs for Diigo, sharing items via Google Reader, and more video related verbs. Let's hear what's on your list.

Comment from Matias Sulzberger on 2008-09-06

2008-09-06T22:24:40Z

Thanks! Very useful commands!

Comment from Neil Garb on 2008-09-07

2008-09-07T15:41:02Z

I have created a custom Ubiquity command to fetch Zoopy media matching a particular search string. You can fetch it at http://www.zoopy.com/ubiquity/index.html.

Comment from l.m.orchard on 2008-09-07

2008-09-07T17:50:16Z

For what it's worth, I've also got a Delicious command under development:

http://decafbad.com/UbiquityCommands/

It includes a graphical preview with a character limit counter on notes, and a status bar icon displaying bookmark info for the current page.

I also wrote up the first version in tutorial form and plan to revise that to follow changes I've made to the command since then:

http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/09/01/writing-a-delicious-command-for-ubiquity

http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/09/07/improving-my-delicious-command-for-ubiquity

Comment from Jeton on 2008-09-07

2008-09-07T21:58:28Z

Anyone here willing to update the post to include l.m.orchard's delicious command?

It's THE delicious command ;)

Comment from Wayne Elgin on 2008-09-07

2008-09-08T02:21:43Z

Not to diss the devs of these, but I think that if you can do it with a Firefox Quick Search bookmark, then it shouldn't be a Ubiquity verb, because it doesn't solve a (new) real problem and it probably isn't natural language.

The Ubiquity videos were inspiring for being able to take a user's command, grab a bunch of sources and put them together into meaningful, useful information on the fly.

Comment from TuringTest on 2008-09-08

2008-09-08T07:26:16Z

Those are no verbs.

All I can see in that list is a collection of *places*, which are names on themselves. Where are the real verbs, which perform *actions* that are not tied to a specific web service but provide a common meaning - one that can be applied to different contents?

Comment from dc crowley on 2008-09-08

2008-09-08T09:51:02Z

Corvida! thanks... really really useful post :) Don

Comment from Codewzrd on 2008-09-22

2008-09-22T13:24:11Z

I've created 2 commands, Delicious and Jetable.

Delicious is equivalent to the Delicous bookmarklet.
http://gist.github.com/9499

Jetable inserts a temporary Jetable.com email address. You can specify a life span as well (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month).
http://gist.github.com/11261