The CapTimes twitter feed for news is finally working. We're following everyone we could find in Madison, which has been a real education.  It's also fed us two leads and brought in some tech perspective on a couple issues.

Most recently, I read that someone was going to Buraka for the first time.  Since we just launched 77 Square, I thought I'd tweet the individual a link to the Buraka page in our dining guide and asked that the tweeter share their thoughts.

Enter Ubiquity.  Mozilla has released this early alpha into the wild and it is indeed wild.  The interface is raw, but useful.  In this case, I used it to grab the URL from the Buraka page, which is very long and with a single command, I turned it into a TinyURL and pasted it into the tweet I was writing.  Very smooth!  The video at the Ubiquity page I linked at the beginning of this paragraph has a great video intro.

Much like desktop widgets, Ubiquity provides a lot of common task interfaces - define, search, calendar, etc., all available out-of-the-box.  Using JavaScript, one can create their own commands.  Or, one can subscribe to commands created by others.  I tried this out and found a programming shortcut that I'm sure I'll find to be very helpful.

As we try to move faster online, tools like this will become indispensable.