User:Gabriel Kent/archive:RubNub for YubNub

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RubNub for YubNub is a (social) command bar for the web.

RubNub is a FireFox Toolbar which interacts with YubNub. It allows users to create and use commands which are mapped to webpages and web services.

There is a growing, community-based, set of commands for use by anyone. To contribute to the command set, a user types in 'new' and creates their own custom commands. Some users use this in place of the standard Address Bar because it will accept normal URLs with/without 'http://' or 'www.' just like is normally entered for a URL.

1 Technical Details
- 1.1 Example Commands
2 Trivia
3 More Info

[edit] Technical Details

RubNub is open-source software licensed under the MIT License. It is written in XUL/Javascript and was made Open Source with the help of Subversion/Trac and encourages users to contribute at dev.RubNub.

[edit] Example Commands

   * g future progress
     Does a search on Google for future progress
   * y future progress
     Does a search on Yahoo! for future progress
   * gimyim los angeles
     Does a search for los angeles in Google and Yahoo! images
   * gearth los angeles
     launches Google Earth and takes you to Los Angeles
   * echo <a href="http://www.futureprogress.net">Future Progress</a>
     Will return a link to Future Progress (think of the possibilities)
   * simpsons
     Will return a random Simpsons' quote (quite funny)