Yahoo buys Konfabulator
Another one bites the dust : They used to talk about "one product / one feature" businesses bought to fit within a 'proper' company. Um, maybe Konfabulator fits that, anyway it makes more sense than Google buying Dodgeball. This to me is a Yahoo taking on / tapping into Mac play. "Yahoo has acquired Pixoria, maker of a scripting application called Konfabulator that allows people to run mini desktop applications called widgets. These tiny apps can perform simple tasks or put content from the web on their desktops. (Think alarm clocks, calculators, RSS feeds from favorite sites.). Apple has helped mainstream the concept of widgets with its new operating system Tiger. But Pixoria was doing widgets first, and Konfabulator runs on both Macs and Windows."
The ex-Oddpost founding now Yahoo Developer Network spokesperson almost used the work 'remix' and he did help define the word Yahoowise ""It's the ability of third-party developers to take our services and mix-and-match and them into new types of applications, take them outside of the browser into different types of environments and sort of give users access to Yahoo services outside of our traditional pages and our portal,'' he said. "Konfabulator fits well into that, our desire to expand our reach into developers and new platforms....We are looking for ways to make it even easier to build on top of Yahoo.'" A generic feed I ripped said :Konfabulator's widgets can be programmed to perform a wide variety of tasks. The most popular applications are local weather and stock quotes, Rose said, but third-party developers have developed thousands of other uses. For instance, there are widgets that monitor the local traffic or show the remaining power left on a laptop computer's battery. Other more whimsical widgets serve up comic strips and horoscopes. The Yahoo deal "gives us whole new buckets of content to grab stuff from." Rose said."
The ex-Oddpost founding now Yahoo Developer Network spokesperson almost used the work 'remix' and he did help define the word Yahoowise ""It's the ability of third-party developers to take our services and mix-and-match and them into new types of applications, take them outside of the browser into different types of environments and sort of give users access to Yahoo services outside of our traditional pages and our portal,'' he said. "Konfabulator fits well into that, our desire to expand our reach into developers and new platforms....We are looking for ways to make it even easier to build on top of Yahoo.'" A generic feed I ripped said :Konfabulator's widgets can be programmed to perform a wide variety of tasks. The most popular applications are local weather and stock quotes, Rose said, but third-party developers have developed thousands of other uses. For instance, there are widgets that monitor the local traffic or show the remaining power left on a laptop computer's battery. Other more whimsical widgets serve up comic strips and horoscopes. The Yahoo deal "gives us whole new buckets of content to grab stuff from." Rose said."
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