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Nicholas Jitkoff normally hides in the shadows a little, as alcor. They finally persuaded him to come out and speak about Quicksilver.

Quicksilver is the FIRST application that I will install on a new Mac, and it was great to here about it from the horses mouth:

Quicksilver hides almost unbounded power beneath the interface of a keyboard-driven ... all » launcher. Using a basic grammatical model, it allows you to move beyond basic search and work effortlessly with applications, data, and the web. Quickilver is above all a prototype intended to explore new forms of interaction.

In this talk, we will explore the motivation behind Quicksilver, highlights of its implementation, lessons learned from its design, and the ways it might inform the future of navigation for the desktop and the web.

You should give this a watch if:

• You use Quicksilver as a launcher, that is fine, but check this out
• You want to learn about the philosophy behind Quicksilver (do without acting and such)
• Implementation details
• You care to learn about the pros and cons of a plugin architecture
• You want to learn about other apps like Abracadabra and Constelation
• What is next with Quicksilver? Alchemy, the new uber-framework that other apps that sit on top of
• The future of hybrid search via Quicksilver.Next
• You are curious about how any of this stuff fits in with Google (Cool stuff that Nicholas can work on)