I use it to twitter, play media, search folders, browse folders, email, open firefox bookmarks, open documents, move files, rename files. It does everything you can think of, it’s insane!

The twitter in particular is brilliant, simply press you short cut key for gnome do, start typing a sentence and it automatically recognises its a sentence and hit enter to post it to twitter or hit tab for other actions to do.

It’s so good that I don’t use any icons on my desktop.

I enjoyed your talk on Ubiquity at #bathcamp last night.

I’ve been using it for a few months now, mainly to manage my rememberthemilk todos.

I think the real power of Ubiquity (or its ilk) will come if they can combine the natural language recognition with speech recognition.

Just imagine being able to say, “calendar lunch with Ryan at 1pm on Friday”, and having Ubiquity insert the appointment into gcal. Really exciting.

ubiquity.mozilla.com is dead (google’s cache as well), so I’ll have to keep wondering if there’s a “whats new” list, until it comes up…

BTW, Mozilla describes it as Ubiquity 0.1, which is intended to spark the minds of developers. I assume version 1.0 would probably rock much harder, especially with many more scripts, commands and integrations.

It’s counter-intuitive for most investors, thus you have the Facebooks driving you to do EVERYTHING on their platform with apps, imports, and photo editing, etc. Because THEY want to make “information sharing even easier” but within their own ‘SILO.’

Yes, they recognize other companies: importing feeds from Yelp or Hulu, or last.fm onto your news feed is great business; but, it’s limited.

Mozilla’s new project Ubiquity is seriously amazing. And as it stands, I feel it’d make a GREAT Adobe Air application.

The more you make commerce user-centric, the greater transparency of information. As this happens, a continuing paradigm shift must move away from the company-centric logic that encapsulates monetizing your business model.

The product or utility is free, but the BRAND increases in value, leaving it open to what Carson says: charging companies to utilize it. It’s what Twitter is going to do…Charge DELL for its windfall on Twitter.

This eyeballs first approach doesn’t work if you don’t go all the way. Digg and others fail at this.

Great post, this kind of technology needs more promotion.

I use the translate function almost hourly, since I see lots of tweets and such come through in separate languages. It’s nice to have the text translated right onto the page.

The define function is also nice, for those who feel it necessary to use words only 1% of the population knows.

Nick

http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/

As hard as good products are to find, once something is done nearly perfectly on the web (Google Maps), it vaporizes monetizing opportunities for competition (look how many ads are on http://www.mapquest.com/).

I imagine if it did take off that Google, or the providers would want some form of adwords inclusion / banners on the interface much like other services like Windows live. It would also be great to have an api that code be ported to devices like the iphone and s60 phones.

I think the monetisation will come from transactional websites offering an easy way to search products (eg amazon). Coming from a ecommerce dev/marketing background this really starts to open the doors to previously unseen streams of traffic.

This form of ‘browsing’ really begins to define the lines between design and data, a line that in recent times has become blurred.

Really look forward to future development of this project!

The general idea though is fantastic which is why the Quicksilver fanatics can no longer use anything else.

Is it strange how the interface to control something is slowly shifting towards real people as opposed to a few elite people’s ideological perception?

I.e. We are all so hooked on abstract icons, pointers and the like, that we forget that the best way to interact is with speech and words…

Starting to rant, best stop…

@redeye