YubNub - A command line interface for to the web.

Uri Goldstein — Mon, 22 May 2006 12:47:00 GMT

I've just learned about the coolest web app - YubNub. I read about it in Roy Osherove's blog.

What it does is, it gives you a "command-line interface" to the web by allowing you to type in simple commands and then transfering you to corresponsing URLs.

For example, to browse an entry in WikiPedia, I usually type-in to my FireFox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X where X is the entry I'm looking for. In YubNub all I have to do is type-in wiki X and whammo! I'm there.

YubNub has tons more of useful commands that users added to it, there's a command to list them and search through them (the command is 'ls' of course :) ). Anyone can add new commands pretty easily. In addition, it's available as a FireFox search plugin (which I've installed ASAP).

And in a counter-revolutionary sort of way, there's a YubNub command that does "anti-YubNub". The command 'gui' accepts another YubNub command as its argument and gives you a GUI for inputting arguments into that command. Tres cool.

Now all we need is a batch language that can harvest the output from YubNub commands and funnel it to others we'd have the easiest framework ever for making mashups. Anyone up for it? :D

del.icio.us direc.tor - Powerful UI for del.icio.us

Uri Goldstein — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:24:00 GMT

I've just discovered del.icio.us direc.tor which is an innovative and powerful user interface for managing your del.icio.us bookmarks.

You add a bookmarklet to your FireFox (or MSIE) and launch it when browsing del.icio.us. What you get is a drop-down list of all your tags. Choose a tag and another drop-down list is populated with all related tags. Choose a tag from that ddl and the process continues.

This is an excellent way to find links through tags and to see which of your tags are useful and which are not.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Also, has anyone encountered annoying javascript errors on MSIE when using this? Doesn't happen on FireFox, that's fur sure.

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YubNub - A command line interface for to the web.

del.icio.us direc.tor - Powerful UI for del.icio.us