BarCamp Los Angeles 7 May 3 2009
Return
of the
Command Line
New Text Interfaces
David Noble www.dnoble.org

slideshare.net/dnoble
@davenoble

In the Beginning...

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> 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
> 20 GOTO 10
> RUN
HELLO WORLD
HELLO WORLD
HELLO WORLD
HELLO WORLD
HELLO WORLD

In the Beginning...

In the Beginning...

Modern Interfaces!

Modern Interfaces!

Convenience

Convenience
 Fast
 Precise

Convenience
 Fast
 Precise
 Shareable

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html

http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/

Ubiquity Commands
 google, wikipedia, def ine, imdb,
amazon, f lickr, youtube, yelp
 twitter, delicious
 weather, map, translate
 email, calendar

Ubiquity Community
 Create new commands
 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Author_Tutorial
 Share commands

Firefox Keywords
 Add bookmark
 Edit properties
 Use %s as placeholder
 “wiki light saber”

Google SMS
 Text \"help\" to 466453

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/default/sms.html

Twitter
 Notes: Evernote
 Tasks: Remember the Milk
 More bots:
http://twitter.pbworks.com/Bots

Twitter
 WordBot: http://wordbot.blogspot.com/ (help w/crosswords etc)
 Translation: http://twanslate.com/
 Weather: http://twitter.com/forecast
 IMDB: http://twitter.com/imdb
 Amazon: http://twitter.com/junglebot
 Alarm clock: http://twitter.com/timer
 Track your gas mileage: http://www.fuelfrog.com/
 Interface directly from real UNIX cli http://marnanel.org/
projects/blt/

Twitter
 Platforms to make your own bots:
 http://twitter.com/tdo
 http://twitter.com/t411

Desktop
 Quicksilver for Mac
 Launchy for Windows
 GNOME Do for Linux

Image Credits
Cabazon Dinosaur
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/slworking/1353610612/
Child's abacus - Andy Bernay-Roman
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/andy_bernay-roman/3006971702/
Babbage difference eng ine
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/danacea/876328404/
Babbage difference eng ine detail - Andrew Dunn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BabbageDifferenceEng ine.jpg
Colossus at Bletchley Park - Cory Doctorow
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/doctorow/2686262863/
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/doctorow/2686222621/
Colossus Paper Tape - John (Gianni) Raineri
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/goodimages/797664873/
Punchcard - Peter Renshaw
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/bootload/247968267/

Image Credits
Teletype - Jens Ohlig
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/johl/1406805604/
Apple II
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/wuschl2202/1802972953/
Apple II Reference Manual
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/rsepulveda/48277459/
Mice
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/heartevolving/3346204394/
Visicalc Ad
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/scripting news/3471500626/
Visicalc Screen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Visicalc.png
Virtual World - Bryan Fenstermacher
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/fensterbme/145621388/
http://www.f lickr.com/photos/fensterbme/145619552/
XKCD - Randall Monroe
http://xkcd.com/149/