Linked List: August 30, 2008

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity 

Aza Raskin introducing Ubiquity, a research project from Mozilla Labs to add natural language mashups to the web browser. The simple examples make me think it’s LaunchBar or Quicksilver (or Enso) but only for the web. The more ambitious examples (which don’t work yet), make me think it’s trying to do what AppleScript tried but failed to do. E.g.:

Book a flight to Chicago next Monday to Thursday, no red-eyes, the cheapest. Then email my Chicago friends the itinerary, and add it to my calendar.

That’d be incredible. I’m not holding my breath.

Nikon D90 ‘D-Movie’ Sample Footage 

Impressive quality.

CNet Cans the Macalope 

Moving back to his old digs, at least for now.