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 would be truly useful. Still, a great idea born out of a programming contest.

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