Entry February 28, 2007

Tool: Yubnub – Command line for Firefox
My favorite tool recently is Yubnub. As a social command line Web search tool, it allows users from the Web or Firefox search bar to go to multiple search engines or multiple common. It helps me greatly with reducing my list of bookmarks, and the commands are growing. To show the power of Yubnub, I will list out the ones that I use the most:

• cnn <content>, bbc <content>…: search the content on the sites
• am <book/author/etc/>: search on Amazon US
• am de <book/author/etc/>: search on Amazon Germany (I love this)
• li <name>: search on LinkedIn
• g <content>: Google search the content
• leo <word>, dic <word>: Search on German-English/English-English Directory
• wiki <term>: search on wikipaedia
• gc: Google mail composer
• gm: Google map
• gma: Google mail
• gdoc: Google Docs and Spreadsheets
• ym: Yahoo mail

You can download it here and try out yourself.

Update: Things I have been doing in the last few days out of work (in a random order)

• Reconnecting with my network after almost a year… Maintaining my network in LinkedIn.
• Trying to bring together traditional organizational design and development, Cynefin framework and social networking wave; and apply that to my division.
• Reading social network mapping theory of Karen Stephenson.
• Testing ClipMark, a tool for online bookmarking of all types of media and then mail/post to blog. I plan to use it to show interesting sites I visited in the day.
• Setting up a personal planning/tracking system for personal/personal development projects that lasts more than 2 weeks. Focus: available resources and efficiency.
• Reading German cartoons at my son’s order.
• Finishing pending items in my monthly plan. Almost a successful month. Just some items got delayed…
• Finding time to write to my blog more often.

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