Command lines

I was chatting to Paul about Ubiquity ( and the new google app). I said that ubiquity was just the new way of doing a command line. We talked about the benefits of command lines (large numbers of things you can do). I like the idea of reinventing the command line so verbs are shared (does Ubiquity do this?). 

For example LOOK at file calls 'more' and LOOK at folder calls 'ls' in unix speak. Paul suggested doing a command line version of Simon's direct combination. I quite like the idea. I think what makes Ubiquity work is that you are in a web browser and you have some kind of context which can help the program help figure out what to do.