Ubiquity is a research project from Mozilla Labs that has a lot in common with Powerset: the goal of the project is to reinvent the user interface through natural language. Ubiquity uses a command-line interface to allow you to get tasks done quicker by typing in exactly what you want. If you’re a Firefox user, you can download Ubiquity here and try it out.
Powerset is excited to have written a few Ubiquity commands that you might find useful. To install the commands, you'll need to first have installed Ubiquity and then go to Powerset.com and install the command using the install toolbar at the top of your browser.
Once you have the commands installed, you can just type in “powerset ” and you’ll get a full Powerset Wikipedia search of the topic you enter. Just like in a Powerset search, we’ll show you answers from Freebase, Factz that we’ve distilled from Wikipedia, and relevant Wikpiedia articles.
As a bonus, we’ve also included commands from Live Search. For example, try typing “live sean penn” to get Live Search results for Sean Penn. You can also type “live images sean penn” to get a list of images or “live xrank sean penn” to get Sean Penn’s xRank answer. It was really simple to do this thanks to the new JSON API offered by Live Search.
In case you don’t have Ubiquity and you’re wondering what we’re talking about, we’ve included a brief video below of the Powerset Ubiquity commands and the Live Ubiquity commands. Let us know what you think!
Update: We learned from Twitter that our Ubiquity commands were being demoed today by Aza Raskin himself at the Future of Web Apps conference. Cool!
