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headup Ubiquity mashup

I was really excited when I found out about Ubiquity. It’s an experimental browser extension from Mozilla labs that connects the Web with language. It’s both a development platform and an interface.

Like headup, Ubiquity also aims to enrich browsing experiences. Still in prototype version Ubiquity already has great value for Firefox users because of the way it processes natural language commands. It only took me about a couple of hours to start using Ubiquity to perform actions such as googling, wikiing and sending emails. I even used it to get restaurant recommendations, movie reviews, and driving directions.

The reason I had started playing with Ubiquity in the first place was because we’d gotten quite a few requests to add a search box to headup and I was curious to see if I could use Ubiquity’s API as a solution.

Ubiquity is really cool!

Ubiquity has such a great platform that it was really very easy for me to write a “headup – Ubiquity” command. If you have the Ubiquity add on installed you can now use it to open headup on any topic you like. All you need to do is hit Ctrl + Space to open Ubiquity, and then enter “headup [phrase]” to start headup on the topic [phrase].
For example to open the headup panel with results relating to New York city simply click Ctrl + Space to open Ubiquity and then type “headup New York”. You’ll be served with headup’s results for New York city – videos, photos, bands playing scheduled to play there in the near future, etc.

Get it while it’s hot

In order to enjoy all this techy goodness all you have to do is install the Ubiquity add-on and add the headup command by visiting www.headup.com/ubiquity.html

Mashups suggestions welcome

I’m always on the look out for new and groovy stuff to mashup with headup and would love to hear any suggestions you might have. If you have any ideas please contact us via twitter (@headup), leave a comment here, or email us to feedback@headup.com

If you already downloaded Ubiquity – you can add the headup command to your Firefox by going to: www.headup.com/ubiquity.html

If you come up with more suggestions about how other technologies can be connected to headup, or would like to tell us about other ways in which Ubiquity can be mashed with headup – do leave us a comment here or email us to feedback@headup.com

Further reading/downloading headup & Ubiquity:

To download headup: http://www.headup.com
Ubiquity: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

Eylon Yogev.
eylony@headup.com