The 'Foxy folks at Mozilla have just released Ubiquity, an application which allows the less technically-minded of us to blend web-based data and information into collections called 'mashups.'
Mozilla's Ubiquity allows the user to create mashups without programming
A post on the Mozilla blog explains the impetus behind the project:
"...You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You'd like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven't even really sent a map or useful reviews--only links to them..."
If 0.1 and future iterations of Ubiquity are as good as the video demo, the platform could become a force for extending web services such as maps, Google Apps -- or using natural language to add an appointment or find a location.
Watch the Ubiquity video:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
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