Mozilla has announced Ubiquity, a new plugin that helps you do more stuff. At a very basic level it's designed to help you insert items such as maps into your email without having to leave the page.

Equally, you can Wikipedia something from the page you're looking at, rather than having to open a new tab or window. It's a command-based launcher really- quite similar to Quicksilver which, personally, I never really got on with.

But it actually looks pretty useful. Mozilla has announced it as a version 0.1 alpha app, so expect bugs. However, the organisation has already got a little tied up in self-important webby language. A video posted on the Mozilla Labs site irritatingly insists on referring to user-created mashups, which I can imagine is as enthusing to the average user as a cold kebab (although I know Ubiquity isn't intended for the masses yet). I also HATE the word mashup. What does it mean? 'Combining stuff?'

User uncleozzy, posting on Metafilter, I couldn't agree with you more: "This is really neat, but he lost me as soon as he said 'mashup.' And then again. And again." Word up, brother.