Ho John Lee’s Weblog

YubNub provides a user-extendable command line for the web. The site is presently a bit opaque and buggy for non-geeks, but embodies some interesting ideas about combining existing web services. It’s also interesting to see what tasks people have defined as commands, the near-immediate arrival of spammers, and the conversation about how to go about building this sort of service.

This is another example of the “taking small steps” model for exploring new application spaces.

via Batelle:

The idea of search as the command line for the web is well established, this takes the idea one step (or more) further, letting you set up commands in the search line itself. You can use the search line as a single point of reference for searching just about any web resource, and you can add your own, if you’re geeky enough (others will do it for you if you’re challenged like I am).

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