Denis’ Blog

On one hand, HTML and browsing have (positively) changed the world. On the other hand, HTML and the browser have killed productivity. People spend hours using poor HTML designed business applications or browsing dozens of pages than could be one.

Ajax and RIA techniques are one step to bring back productivity to the browser. We’ve seen in the last years many interesting innovations in that field, and we are gaining back, slowly, every minute lost.
In that battle, the Mozilla Labs, the R&D team of the Mozilla Foundation, has released Ubiquity, a software demonstrating one way they explore to bring back productivity while communicating & browsing. Ubiquity tries to connect the Web with language in an attempt in order for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. With natural languages queries (well, almost…) and the help of public API of Web 2.0, Ubiquity helps users win back the minute they lost.

Have a look at it, it’s worth it.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Ok, you have an iPhone. And you’ve been amazed by the first demo of Jeff Han (BTW, Jeff has founded Perceptive Pixel, see their official video). Then you get excited by Microsoft Surface or the one developed by the French Toulouse based startup Intuilab.

Now, thanks to Johnny Chung Lee, join them, transform your laptop 1.0 in a powerful, modern, laptop 3.0

Johnny did it again. Johnny, keep going

Johnny Chung Lee, you rock !