What we are going to see today is something which creates a wonderful mashup and provides functionality which creates a very unique experience. This service is called as MashLogic and is one that promises to help web surfers take back the web. Before we get into the details of what this service is and how it creates a phenomenal web experience, let’s see what a mashup means. According to the wikipedia:

In web development, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. Mashups should be differentiated from simple embedding of data from another site to form compound documents.

What is MashLogic?

MashLogic is a Firefox extension that works quietly under the hood to enrich web pages with the kind of information and media you care about. MashLogic highlights all the important stuff on a web page and provides you with more information (in form of videos, wiki definitions etc) about them. Following is a snapshot of what MashLogic does and wonderfully mashes up things for a great browsing experience.

Not that MashLogic is one of it’s kind. Actually services similar to this already exist. We already covered a similar but restricted service by AnswerTips. Another one which is similar to this is called as Hyperwords. Another great service similar to this is Interclue. Another similar service is Sphere. This one however is for your blogs and enhances your blogging activities and let’s you generate great blog content.

Where is MashLogic from?

MashLogic is incubated by Bessemer Venture Partners and based in Menlo Park, CA.

Following is how the settings screen looks like where you can set various MashLogic preferences.

Right now this service is in private beta and you have to sign up for getting an invite. The business model will be of course base on contextual advertising or affiliate links. I am sure this is just the beginning.

the state or capacity of being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresence: the ubiquity of magical beliefs.

Now, I am sure there’s some lingo expert working at Mozilla Labs for they have a perfect definition to the concept that they just unleashed to lesser mortals like me. Ubiquity is a Firefox extension that’s present everywhere in terms of the searched and commands that you can give to Firefox. That means now I have the power to even more customize my Firefox and if extensions were not enough to make customization easy. Let’s see what Mozilla has as definition for Ubiquity:

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. Ubiquity commands can do nearly anything. Ubiquity comes with a set of commands that make common Web tasks faster and easier.

The commands that come with Ubiquity are just the beginning: anyone can create new commands and share them. Creating Ubiquity commands

Tags: firefox extension, FireFox Extensions, firefox labs, Growl, Mashups, natural language web command line, snowl, ubiquity, User generated Mashups
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