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

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.

Re:too lazy to google right now

[KDR_11k]

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

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 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: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.