smplr.com it is a homepage of sorts… but it reminds me a lot of yubnub.. which has been around for a while. The only real difference, is yubnub is cooler.
Yubnub is a social command line interface to the internet. And was created as a competition entry. It is essentially a different sort of google. But because people can create their own commands, it is more interesting and flexible - it evolves.
Smplr provides a startpage interface that allows users to jump to where they want to go. It is cool, but only because it is nice to look at…
I devised a site that kept you at home, after checking out yubnub. my idea is a command line interface isn’t much of a command line without a command prompt… try opening a terminal and then typing yubnub… what seems to have made sense would have been to provide an actual interface to yubnub as opposed to doing what smplr has done (hard coding commands).. I also have a more advanced version of this that I was working on, but it never made it online.
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Nice console!
Jon
yubnub/ning
well… youOS.com has moved well in the direction I was hoping to go. So I didn’t feel enthused to continue.
However, I felt a need to procrastinate today and so I bring you webos_c. But first, it is completely not user friendly. I wanted to make a shell application that users could create simple applications for really easily. And to prove this, I have taken the ‘yubnub’ module out. You can add it via the console with the command ‘load yubnub’.
I am also starting to build a module to allow users to create their own simple applications: shuEditor, which you can add with ‘load shueditor’.
Once you have loaded the yubnub module, you can access the real yubnub search console using ‘yn’ + your query.
http://www.geocities.com/alpha_foobar/webos_c/console.html
The other commands you can use with the yubnub module are g + query, y + query… imdb + query.
Close will close the current window. But max doesn’t work well - its not something much of the core was written to consider… but should take much more to fix.
I’m happier with the presentation of this page, than webos_b…and it has some nice clean features.
The shuEditor will work using cookies - but I will put a submit form into it to allow people to submit any applications they would care to make - tomorrow night.