"With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do."
Yesterday Mozilla Lab launched Ubiquity, an interactive search tool that takes web usability to another level.
Ubiquity is in version 0.1, so it's okay to be skeptical. Sometimes you want to wait until the Company knocks out all the bugs (i.e. iPhone), or until enough buzz is created around it that you have to see what's all about (i.e. Twitter), but you don't have to this time. Jump on the train before it leaves the platform.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo
MySpace, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the list goes on; trying to keep up and maintain all my junk accounts friends status got to be a little overwhelming. At any given time I'd have tabs to an array of communication tools and personal blogs just to stay in touch with friends and family, so I decided it was time to consolidate.
Google Experimental, a new division of Google Labs, is currently testing the idea of letting the user delete and add sites listed in his/her personalized search results using Digg-style features.
Here at LevelTen Design, we have a monthly newsletter that we send out, but we have had trouble with it going to spam folders. Even though the LevelTen In-Site Newsletter passed all the spam filter tests for three different spam checkers, it is still getting dropped in Gmail and Outlook 2007 spam folders.