Revisiting YubNub

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

I wrote about Jon Aquino’s YubNub back on June 13. It was just two days after I started the blog, and so not many people read that post.

Lot’s of people know about YubNub though. It is an “Internet command line” that allows anyone to create a new function and access other web services from the YubNub command line. A command consists of at least two pieces of information – an application identifier and a specific command.

Some of the more popular commands are here. Don’t see the command you need? Create your own. Want to use YubNub without going to the site? Install the plugin and skip a few steps.

Oliver Starr wrote about YubNub today on MobileCrunch, including a look at its uses on a mobile browser.

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