'Ubiquity' from Mozilla Labs

Come across this source from a blog (http://www.kungpowthinking.com/) I read today.

Very interesting thoughts and prototype demo by Aza Raskin, Mozilla Labs

The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:

• 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.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

more @ http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

The demo video seem promising to address the project goals, but I doubt its ease to learn. Maybe its like using google search edit box on the firefox browse. It empower you many hidden calls that its beyond just serach.

My 1st impression is that users need to remember lots of shortcut, command line and many typing to activate and complete tasks. It felt like an expanded 'Run..' control under 'Start' pop up menu that continue by running>edit>complete.

But I'm very impressed with the experience empowered to the user to be able to complete what they wish to do with simple command lines on Ubiquity.