A Simple Proposal for the Dissemination of YubNub

[elzr]

Fellow YubNubbers,

It is my task today to remind our community of the sad fact that far
too few people enjoy the joys of YubNub. This is not only tragic for
them but for us too, who ourselves miss the joys of a massively
popular YubNub. YubNub is fated for greatness but the gods themselves
need every helping hand they can get.

So to the end of spreading the YubNub joy, I propose a simple
convention for ourselves that should repay many times over. Everytime,
or as often as it is proper, that we mention a major website in our
blogs or emails, let's include right after its name a parenthesized
message like this:

(Yubnub's "{website's command}")

HTML:
(<a href="http://yubnub.org">Yubnub</a>'s "<a href="{website's
command's man page}">{website's command}</a>")

EXAMPLE:
(Yubnub's "wp")

I believe this to be a unique showcase of YubNub's diversity and
usefulness. It should entice and intrigue the uninitiated as much as
it should be helpful to the seasoned YubNubber.

I've started myself in a recent post of mine (http://elzr.com/posts/
seeqpod) and shall be making it retroactive throughout the blog as
time allows. What do you think?

YubNubbely yours,

ELZR.com

[Gabriel Kent]

I agree with any effort to push YubNub forward.

Along these same lines, I have added link support to RubNub so a given
href is friendly but still uses YubNub for routing (e.g., rub://g+rubnub).
For working examples, see:

http://rubnub.org/examples

(note: you must have rubnub v1.5+ installed for rub:// links to work)

In addition, you could just make it a yubnub+cmd link instead of
linking to the site directly and put a (via yubnub) or something
similar.

The real power of these kind of links (rub or long-form yubnub) exist
in combining yubnub commands resulting in mashups on-the-fly...which
results in more functionality from a given link; dynamic or static.

Again, I agree that any way YubNub can be integrated into the normal
net experience it should. I think the reasons for this extend beyond
yubnub and rest purely in this idea of changing our current ideas and
use of URIs.

I think YubNub and URI bar integration really start to bring into
question how we call upon resources and route on the net and has the
added benefit of making unique 'domains' free (e.g., the yubnub
command for my blog is "rub://>||;)" hows that for a link and it
didn't cost me a penny)

>||;)

[Gabriel Kent]

Err...I should say "making unique 'domains' free *and more useful*" as
we all know its easy to get a URI (via a free blog or profile) but so
often there is little freedom in choosing the URI merely your username
and in the worse case your profile is someone else's domain + just a
#.

Many might not see the importance of the URI...but when you think
about interacting with sites purely through a URI then you might see
the ability to treat any site like a DB.

Imagine if most sites accepted this URI as a search on the site for
'pink dogs':

"http://somesite.com/search/pink+dogs"

The site would return, to the best of its ability, anything it has on
pink dogs. This would be different for flickr or google video or say a
shopping site.

With yubnub this could be reduced to "somesite pink dogs" -- now
imagine searching the net for pink dogs:

1. First you 'g pink dogs'
which returns a list of DB resources (sites) matching anything to do
with pink dogs
2. You pick a listing and click the 'site search link' which links you
to 'http://somesite.com/search/pink+dogs'
and you have a specific list of pink dogs from a specific resource

If the site maintained such high isomorphism with all its URIs then
you can truly treat the site like a DB.

Good stuff for us but even better for our weak/strong AI search agents
and auto-discovery services.

URIs can be damned important in helping the semantic web initiative.

bah... if interested see:
'g search based contextual routing'
or rub://g+search+based+contextual+routing

>||;)

[Gabriel Kent]

Oh... and sorry for the mostly off-topic rant. Happens sometimes :x

[Brian]

Good idea. Now I just need to blog more. :)

[gangsta75]

let's do it :)..
thanks for your idea
Michele