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!
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:
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.
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!
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:
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.
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Thanks! Very useful commands!
Posted by: Matias Sulzberger
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September 6, 2008 3:24 PM
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.
Posted by: Neil Garb | September 7, 2008 8:41 AM
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
Posted by: l.m.orchard | September 7, 2008 10:50 AM
Anyone here willing to update the post to include l.m.orchard's delicious command?
It's THE delicious command ;)
Posted by: Jeton | September 7, 2008 2:58 PM
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.
Posted by: Wayne Elgin | September 7, 2008 7:21 PM
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?
Posted by: TuringTest | September 8, 2008 12:26 AM
Corvida! thanks... really really useful post :) Don
Posted by: dc crowley | September 8, 2008 2:51 AM
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
Posted by: Codewzrd | September 22, 2008 6:24 AM