Yahoo! Purchases Konfabulator

Yep, you heard it here! 

Yahoo! this morning announced the acquisition of Konfabulator. 

Konfabulator is a desktop widget engine that allows people to add widgets to their desktops to perform a number of functions. Such as a specific RSS feed reader, API consumer for localized weather, system tools, even a consumer of earthquake data.  Extremely flexible and helpful tool, and it will be interesting to see what Yahoo! does with it.

One thing they did already was make it “free”.  Yep, you heard it.  Also, those who purchased the recently released 2.0 version will recieve a refund.  Looking forward to that, since I recently purchased it. 

This will be interesting as all get out though.  I have long thought that people want segmented, targeted access to information without bloating (hello AOL) your desktop.  Two years ago I submitted a proposal for something very similar to the powers that be at AOL, and got shotdown.  Oh well, it is their loss.