Yahoo Buys Konfabulator : Free Widgets
July 26th, 2005Yahoo acquires Konfabulator. These Konfabulator Widgets enliven your desktop stay on your screen and give you quick, easy access to favorite content. You can even change their style to match yours.
“Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop — the same model used by Apple for its Dashboard application. Yahoo! company executives said they would also be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product.”
You can visit the new Yahoo Widgets and choose from more than 1,000 cool widgets at the widgets gallery for free. Why not share in the comments your favourite widgets.
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Yahoo missed the boat on blogs, and now they are tryng to get involved in widgets, isn’t that apples domain. They really need to new employees that have original idea. They are getting as bad as microsoft for unoriginality.
I heard they selected the name “Yahoo Widgets” after turning down the close favorite “Yahoo CPU-Draining Nonsense TimeWasters.”