yubnub: search bar commands
Just had a play with yubnub…wow, this tool is very cool!
You can add a command to the system…command label, description, plus the URL.
Then you can go to the search bar, enter your command and it will take you straight to that website.
Good thing is that you can install the plug-in, so you can easily search from your browser.
So if you want to go to Wikipedia all you do is enter “wp” in the searchbar and your taken to the website.
The browsable list has the, command, website name and URL…but if you want to go to a website from the plug-in you will probably have to commit some commands to memory.
The immediate problem is multiple commands for the same URL…as an experiment I just made “wpedia” which takes you to the same URL as “wp”
…so there may be a bit of clutter
The unique thing is that a command will only go to one designated URL.
The reason I say this is, what if you don’t like the “wp” command for Wikipedia, well as just mentioned above make your own command for the same URL, but you may prefer this command to mean Wordpress…but too bad “wp” is already taken.
So this leads to…can yubnub be accessed via a log-in as a personalised version, this would be great as you have control over the commands.
According to my obervations your commands won’t be able to be automatically included into some sort of folksonomy (unless they are unique commands) as the same command label can’t be designated for more than one URL.
The only way to share commands is by entering them in manually into the yubnub home page.
Read more here.
The only similar application I’ve come across is ActiveWords.
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In Firefox, you can attach a keyword to any bookmark.
Just open your bookmarks and select properties for the one you want to configure.
Once you have set a keyword, you can type that in the address bar and it will open the bookmark.
Firefox comes pre-configured with some keywords, in the Quick Searches folder.
Comment by Richard Akerman — June 28, 2005 @ 5:01 pm
You may want to check Ambedo.com as well. It has a login system so you have your own set of tags (that you can share and import in the directory) and works on the client side with javascript. With that you can have multiple tags with the same name and select among them with the up and down arrow to decide what to do.
Comment by Erik — June 28, 2005 @ 6:16 pm