A couple of days ago, Mozilla Labs released new Weave Sync APIs and resources for developers. If you have no idea what Weave is you should check it out here. Weave aims to seamlessly bridge your desktop and mobile Firefox experiences, by syncing bookmarks, saved passwords, browsing history, and open browser tabs across your platforms. So, in short you can leave your home computer and access your, lets say, browsing history via your mobile phone.

For the time being such capabilities existed in the iPhone but only limited to the bookmark syncing via MobileMe features or via apps like Instapaper.
There is also Google Web History which merged with Google Bookmarks last summer and now has some great features like viewing your web activity, searching the full text of pages you’ve visited, getting personalized search results and more. However these features are only available if you install the latest Google Toolbar and there is no immediate access via your mobile phone.
So, Weave is here to change this. You don’t have to install any toolbar and now that there is an API out there the possibilities are numerous. Mozilla already released a number of early prototypes and sample code that have been developed alongside the Weave APIs including a web-based Weave client, an iPhone Weave client, a commandline Weave client and a WebOS Weave client.

Now that Weave API is out I would love to see a Weave client for my Android phone along with some import/export features in Weave or even better some Ubiquity commands to interact with the Weave.

By the way, does anyone know when the latest Ubiquity version will be available for Firefox 3.6?

Clicking on the “Seach settings” takes you to the Preferences page from where you may change some cool things concerning the way your Google results may appear by altering SafeSearch filtering, the number of results per page, etc. However my favorite part is the Subscribed Links at the bottom of that page.

When you subscribe to some of these links you customize Google search to show special results from sources of your choice. For example if you search for “man grep” after subscribing to “Unix Manpages” you will get this as a result.

As you may see, somewhere in the first few results you will see a result coming from your selected subscribed links. In this specific example we get to see a very short explanation of the linux command “grep”. Apart from that you may notice the “iGoogle” link replaced by “Web Hostory” and the gbar – the blue bar in the results page that includes the “Show Options” link – that has shifted to left following the ads shifting which occurred a few days ago.

Moreover, Google Bookmarks and Web History have now merged providing a more complete bookmarking product. Google Bookmarks which almost seemed abandoned by Google now gets a little more attention. This merged product provides you a complete list of your web history splitted into categories such as Web, Images, News, Maps and Blogs. If you look lower you will see Trends, where you may see a list of your top searches, a look at your search activity, and other interesting tidbits. You will also see Interesting Items, where you may see Recent top queries and web pages related to your searches. And finally, at the bottom of that navigation menu you will see your good old Bookmarks.

I would love to see Google Bookmarks getting even better, more social and more beautiful.