Love the Mac > Yahoo Konfabulates (or, er, Konfabulator Yahoos)

http://www.bainbooks.com [Axis] Still, I haven't upgraded to Tiger yet, so widgets aren't really an option to me unless I Konfabulate, so maybe now that it's free I'll download and see what's Kool (should probably note that Konfabulator is also available for Windows, which gives it bonus points for developers, and is probably one of the reasons Yahoo! was interested, because Apple sort of stole the whole idea for their new operating system, didn't they?

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[Pete & Jay's Tip O Da Day] Widget Tip of the Day: (Read our previous Widget Tip of the Day for more ideas on what Widgets can do.) If you haven't coughed up the $130 to upgrade to "Tiger" or have Windows you can still have widgets, and you can have them for free thanks to Yahoo! Just this last week Yahoo!

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Konfabulator, but I do think that the Dashboard functionality (in addition to being able to park Dashboard Widgets on the Desktop, too) adds considerable benefits to the whole Widget thing. So, I think of Yahoo!'s acquisition and marketing of Konfabulator as a form of marketing for Apple's Dashboard, i.e., if you like Yahoo!

Gigaom.com[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » Yahoo buys Konfabulator: Pixoria has over 1000 third party widgets plus a great platform for people to build Yahoo-enabled mini apps using our APIs) and they are a great new desktop distribution channel for Yahoo. Yahoo will keep the app as a free product, and apparently Yahoo will refunding people who purchased it in the last couple of months).

http://www.siliconbeat.com [Siliconbeat.com] SiliconBeat: Yahoo buys Konfabulator maker, enters widget business: One of the allures of widgets is that they are relatively easy for tech-savvy individuals to create (We created a SiliconBeat widget in just a few hours this weekend). Konfabulator has more than a thousand widgets in its gallery, the vast majority contributed by users.

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