Take a few minutes to learn about the experimental Firefox plugin Ubiquity.

The ability to quickly and easily find information that is meaningful and relevant to you, simply by way of a few keystrokes, particularly from divergent sources, seems more like the function of a super-computer, rather than a mere web browser plug-in that allows a user to generate their own mashups.

You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews - only links to them.

According to creator Aza Raskin, head of UX at Mozilla, Ubiquity is an “alpha 0.1 prototype community experiment”, but even at this point it is showing amazing promise.