Wednesday, September 17, 2008

19 Great Verbs for Ubiquity

For the tech-savvy and webapp oriented, Ubiquity seems like a great direction. Every Ubiquity command is like having a command line interface for your favorite web services. I've browsed through the herd and found a few that are either very useful, interface with webapps I like, or otherwise show a lot of promise.
(note: I have intentionally left out most "search" verbs, as I find they are superfluous)

Webapps

Todoist - I was actually in the middle of writing a verb for todoist myself when I discovered this project. I think I may still finish my own, but it appears this fellow has run into the same roadblocks that I have, which picking specific projects.

add-task - Adds task to RTM (Remember the Milk)

delicious - Add tab's URL to delicious with user specified tags.

share-on-facebook - Post the current URL to your facebook feed.

30boxes - While I don't use the 30boxes calendar, I figured many people do. You can add to your calendar with this verb.

later - Adds the URL to the instapaper.com service, so that you can read the webpage later.

Web Utilities

myip - Insert your public IP address into an editable area.

isdown, ping, whois, tracert - Just like they sound.

add-on-search
- Search for Mozilla Firefox add-ons.

foaf
- Searches for Friend of a Friend data on the current page. Very neat.

Developer Tools

validate - A w3c validator tool.

lorem - Insert lorem ipsum filler text.

java - Find API on java classnames.

bz - Launches bugzilla for given bug number.

Odds 'n' Ends

integrate - A ubiquity integration calculator!

sms - Uses autosms to send messages to cell phones.

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