Yahoo Purchases Konfabulator

NerdyPunk2ML writes "Macworld news has an article about Yahoo's acquisition of Konfabulator, which will be announced Monday. Yahoo company executives said they will be giving Konfabulator away for free, completely doing away with the US$19.95 currently charged for the product. The reason they purchased Konfabulator was they wanted an easy way to open up its APIs to the developer community and allow them easy access to the information on the Yahoo web site." From the article: "The acquisition of Konfabulator may not be the last Mac compatible product users see from Yahoo! While Schneider wasn't specific, he did say that there was interest in the Mac. 'There is a move at Yahoo! -- in addition to Konfabulator -- to move more onto the Mac,' said Schneider. 'We want to make sure we find a way to be more cross platform.'"

Comments

fells like dvorak...

[soapdog]

Heh, I know Google will now buy Apple to get hands on Dashboard, way better than konfab... /me fells insightfull

highly doubt

[akhomerun]

with dashboard out, just like the article implies, i doubt yahoo will continue making its widgets for dashboard. of course, my comment is kind of an obvious statement...but hey it's 1 in the morning no one should notice.

Please, take me seriously!

[Anonymous Coward]

And the CEO's new job title, "Director of Widget Technology"! What a step up.

Re:Please, take me seriously!

[Rellik66]

And I'll be the Director of Minor Widget Technology

or DiMWiT for short

Re:too lazy to google right now

[QuantumG]

pointless javascript based desktop junk.

I just bought Konfabulator

[aarku]

I bought it about a week ago. It's nice, but this blows. How do I look on the bright side of this? I could use that $20.

Re:I just bought Konfabulator

[phalse phace]

"if you read the damn article... reading is fundamental and i don't think half the fucking population can do it anymore."

You must be new here.

Re:I just bought Konfabulator

[Strolls]

reading is fundamental and i don't think half the fucking population can do it anymore.

This is Slashdot - most people here are members of the non-fucking population, YIC.

Re:too lazy to google right now

[KDR_11k]

At what point did MS steal the idea for Active Desktop?

Re:Cheap buy?

[ceeam]

Unless VISTA has Widgets like these..

Bwahaha! Thanks for a laugh. If ever Microsoft makes something like these I bet you whatever you wish it will NOT be a simple zip file format for widgets with resource images, xml configs and JS scripts in it. It will probably be a hecked up binary (they will provide a semi-documented interface to work with it. Maybe.) with uncompressed BMP images, UTF16 encoded strings, etc, etc. Expect at least 3-5 megs per widget. Of course only MS signed widgets will run without a hack. In short - see how they implemented Windows Themes for example. Oh, and you will need to install .NET 2.0 runtime and MSIE 7.0 of course!

Re:ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

I doubt this will leave a good taste in anyones mouth

I left a good taste in your mom's mouth.

Re:Yahoo! is the greatest

[kf6auf]

Konfabulator is awesome, if MicroSoft had released it, it would cost $69.95 in the form of an OS update.

That's nothing. If Apple released it, said OS update would cost $129. Oh, wait a sec...

Re:I tried to like Konfabulator

[Darkman, Walkin Dude]

A weather checking widget? Check. But I have a web browser with a tab to my local weather up at all times anyway.

Wow. Slashdotters are the only people that when you say "open the window" to they immediately turn to their computers.

Re:Why use a computer monitor?

[Breakfast Pants]

Wait. You spend all this money on some penis enlarging theater system and you don't even have any real life friends you can show it off to and brag about it to? You have to come on Slashdot to do it? We can't even see it.