I wrote about Jon Aquino’s YubNub back on June 13. It was just two days after I started the blog, and so not many people read that post.
Lot’s of people know about YubNub though. It is an “Internet command line” that allows anyone to create a new function and access other web services from the YubNub command line. A command consists of at least two pieces of information - an application identifier and a specific command.
Some of the more popular commands are here. Don’t see the command you need? Create your own. Want to use YubNub without going to the site? Install the plugin and skip a few steps.
Oliver Starr wrote about YubNub today on MobileCrunch, including a look at its uses on a mobile browser.
Mike,
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I found this application pretty interesting during the Rails Day event. Funny coincidence that I just visited the site again yesterday
still love the concept.
Yahoo! added some functionality for this sort of thing a few weeks ago. You can learn about it by searching for !help.
Wow, this look very familiar to the command phrase service Fooky.com was offering since 1999 in it’s first incarnation. I’m glad somebody is validating the concept and I won’t comment here on yubnub.
Funny, the tech journalist/blogging community don’t like to cover me or Fooky.com, not even to give me a bad review for some strange reason. Doesn’t matter, they don’t understand how it’s benefits my company to work directly with partners and potentential customers outside the media limelight.
yes because a product from 1999 with 8 commands and no web 2.0 technology that is beatemn hands down for mainstream users by a service bulit in 24hrs realy qualifies as “new 2.0 development or tech” :sigh:
Very interesting.
The themes people share in WordPress, and the widgets people make for Yahoo!’s widget engine, and now yubnub, are all part of a trend towards highly customized micro-solutions that almost anyone can build.
This is going to be a big part of Web Office, when any knowledge worker can build a solution that can be shared on the web. Today, they can only build word docs, presentations and spreadsheets. In the future, the kinds of possible solutions will be much more powerful.
Hi Michael - Thanks for mentioning YubNub again, and congratulations on the success of the TechCrunch blog!!
Alterion,
I admit I put myself out there, but I’ll deal with your weak comments and this snub issue on my own personal blog.
I won’t use a social command line until I can use it at the command line. Opening a GUI web-browser to get to a GUI web-page with a text box isn’t my idea of a command line, no sir.
Snurt (http://snurt.org) is another command-line web tool. It goes a step further and allows full-out programs, including web applications with persistence, to be written using the tool. For a language it uses the widely familiar Javascript. Still in a very early stage and not a lot of social tools yet, but it has promise to be pretty cool.