Mozilla Labs announced today that it has released a new solution called Ubiquity, which will try to bring a disjointed Web together under the auspices of that one solution.
Ubiquity will try to "connect the Web with language to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily." More specifically, Ubiquity will try to get users to type what they want to do instead of what they're trying to find in a search box, enable more mashups to increase the usability of different Web services, and extend browser functionality to make it a hub for online solutions.
As part of its announcement, Mozilla Labs announced Ubiquity 0.1, which will demonstrate some of Ubiquity's concepts and its potential. This first release focuses more on the platform itself, which the subsequent release will "explore interfaces that are closer to features that might make it into Firefox."
Mozilla also said that Ubiquity 0.1 will allow "users to map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; look up and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax highlight any code you find; and a lot more."
At this point, Ubiquity is obviously a crude version of what could possibly be, but it promises more than it currently offers. And by performing the kind of functions that are simply impossible today (Mozilla mentions the difficulty with which people can work together on mapping), Ubiquity could be the centerpiece of the Web's evolution. At the very least, Mozilla hopes so.