I received a Tweet yesterday afternoon that led me to to a recent article over on the Mozilla Labs blog announcing the launch of a new Firefox Extension prototype called ‘Ubiquity’.

I installed and had a play around with Ubiquity last night and I have to admit it oozes potential. Even in it’s current manifestation it comes across as being pretty special.

What Ubiquity does is to bring together a wealth of other web resources and allows you to interact with them all from a single command line interface that you invoke by hitting the CTRL/Option and Space keys.

What this lets you do is call on multiple applications without actually having to physically visit the website of the resource you’re attempting to use.

Take for example this blog article. Using Ubiquity (and without ever moving away from this page), I could shorten the URL of the web address, post it to my Twitter feed, email it to a colleague using Gmail, and submit the article to Digg. More…

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