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.