I recently spoke with Aza Raskin at FOWA on Ubiquity commands/annotations sharing. I promised I’ll prototype something, here it is…
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When someone applies an Ubiquity command to a piece of content that tells us what’s the type of that content. The user is making an annotation which is not made for the annotation sake, but made for solving a real need. That annotation if shared could be useful in various ways.
But first let’s look at all the data involved, consider that Alice is selecting some text on a web page, invokes Ubiquity and types ‘translate to japanese’. We have the folowing elements:
- user: anonymous or with an identity (URI)
- web page address (URI)
- selected content
- Ubiquity command (URI) with arguments