Warning: technical entry!

Have you ever wanted to be able to send an email that includes an actual map, a real restaurant review, and have a date add itself to your calendar without the need to open various web sites and paste simple links from them into your email?

Me too.

Now you can, with this Firefox 3 plug-in: Ubiquity. Watch the embedded video in that page for a splendid example of the above in action. That's what the web should be about.

See also: Mozilla's wiki entry for Ubiquity.

This scheme's still early in development and requires knowing certain keywords to activate Ubiquity scripts, but this meta mash-up generator looks like it could be most useful.