YubNub
The number of useful services that the internet has to offer these days is far too difficult to keep track of. YubNub is a nifty little tool which claims to be the command line for the web. It’s a site from where any number of services can be accessed. For example, the command gim india will perform a Google Image search for the term India, or login www.nytimes.com uses Bugmenot to provide a username and password. Other popular shortcuts that can be used are wp for Wikipedia searches, a for answers.com queries, am for amazon.com searches, and many many more. The best part is that anybody can create a command.
But, I see a huge potential for abuse if it becomes popular. People could easily start using it as a personal bookmark alias system for the sites they visit regularly. Maybe a better idea would be to let users create accounts and then create their personal commands, allowing addition of existing commands if they so wish. Then YubNub would be truly useful. Still, a great idea born out of a programming contest.
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I’ve been reading about YubNub on a variety of blogs, including Capital Region People, Wired Dude and Thejo . Basically it is a site that looks at the web as an OS that has resources that can be brought together and used. You can type such things as “gnews london” and yubnub will take you straight to the Google News
By mollten » Blog Archive » Yubnub on 08.08.05 6:47 am
Hi Thejo – Thanks for the YubNub mention. You can also use it to do Google currency conversion: g uae money in indian money
By Jonathan Aquino on 07.15.05 1:49 am
Jonathan, YubNub is a very nice tool. Like I said in the post, it would be great if I could create personal commands without feeling guilty about spamming your service. Consider it, and YubNub may go the del.icio.us way!
By Thejo on 07.15.05 8:22 am
Hi, just checked out YubNub. It is freaking good!
By Vijay on 07.18.05 8:51 am
[...] Yubnub Recent blogtok has centered around yubnub, an internet tool that allows shortcuts to be created to any number of internet services such as Wikipedia and so on. (For example, the command gim karlo will perform a Google Image search for Karlo’s handsome visage.) The service also facilitates the use of other people’s usernames and password to access sites such as the NY Times. What can i say? The internet is just so kewl. [...]
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