(((Man, user-experience people are scary. You see a thing like this, you wonder what "user experience for military boot camp"
would look like. Instead of having to get a haircut and a uniform, you just, you know, destroy all your nation's enemies by pushing one button. Simple!)))
Link: Ubiquity for Firefox on Vimeo.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
(((You know what's even scarier than UX people? The social web.)))
"Ubiquity: Thank You
"Last Tuesday, the community working on Ubiquity was five people. Half of us had never met face-to-face, we spanned three continents, and had written a couple dozen commands. Today, our community is thousands strong with contributes in every time zone. Innovation is pouring in from all directions—we’ve had thousands of commands written for Ubiquity; commands that fundamentally enhance the functionality of the browser. In under a week, we have a roughly comparable number of Ubiquity commands as there are Firefox extensions. That’s an amazing achievement. It highlights the power of enabling innovation edges and empowering such a generative community.
"Wow. Simply wow. And thank you, everyone in the community. We all deserve a giant glass of champagne.
"Mozilla Labs is a shared space for exploring future user experiences of the open Web. We don’t just have community—we are the community. A number of folks have said that the Ubiquity-style interaction heralds the beginning of Web 3.0. While that’s a bit too buzz-wordy for our tastes, with over a hundred thousand users, we do have a critical mass; one that that begins to shift the web from being site-centric to being task-centric...."
