{"id":35,"date":"2008-10-20T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:43:17","slug":"mozilla-ubiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Ubiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1561578&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"298\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although the beta release for <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2008\/08\/introducing-ubiquity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Ubiquity<\/a> appeared in August my workload has been far too off the chain to take it for a test drive.  This weekend I installed Ubiquity and immediately become enamored with the way it efficiently ties together online services in the browser.  I have called this &#8216;mashup on the fly&#8217; as by drawing on <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.toolness.com\/ubiquity-herd\/\" title=\"Herd\" target=\"_blank\">commands<\/a> or writing some basic Javascript to build your own, you can mix and match services easily in your browser.  I played with the Flickr and GoogleMaps commands but what sold me was the <a href=\"http:\/\/maloki.net\/projects\/pingfm-ubiquity\/\" title=\"Ubiquity ping.fm command\" target=\"_blank\">Ubiquity Ping.fm command<\/a> &#8211; the ability to post to all of my social networking sites at once &#8211; in 2 keystrokes &#8211; brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Be forewarned &#8211; this is not for everyone as the interface is text only &#8211; which is a deal breaker for some users.  Also &#8211; Mac users will need to install <a href=\"http:\/\/growl.info\/\" title=\"Growl\" target=\"_blank\">Growl<\/a> to enable notifications.  Remember &#8211; this is an experimental development &#8211; be patient &#8211; it will grow on you in a big way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the beta release for Mozilla Ubiquity appeared in August my workload has been far too off the chain to take it for a test drive. This weekend I installed Ubiquity and immediately become enamored with the way it efficiently ties together online services in the browser. I have called this &#8216;mashup on the fly&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-mashup","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}