Friday, August 05, 2005

Konfabulator Aquired by Yahoo!

What is Konfabulator? One, it's now free! If I have this right, Konfabulator (which will be known as Yahoo! Widgets) allows you to add objects (widgets) to your computer desktop that have nothing to do with a browser. They still pull information from the web the way a browser does but it allows the user to customize the presentation of that information which means you could write your own interface.

Imagine the stock market or weather is important to you. You don't want to open Internet Explorer or Firefox everytime you check the information. With Konfabulator aka Yahoo! Widgets you simply have a Widget sitting on your screen that keeps the information just a glance away. You can write your own or download one from the Widget Gallery (which is down at the time of this post..hopefully that's a temporary screwup relating to the transition to Yahoo).

Congratulations to the Konfabulator team on their success!


Posted by: djuggler | 10:34 PM |