Yahoo! buys Konfabulator, gives it away
Yahoo! has purchased widget company Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount. Originally Konfabulator was a Mac only product and was much ballyhooed by Leo Laporte when he was on The Screen Savers. Yahoo’s purchase of Konfabulator means that it will shed it’s $20 license fee, plus refund the cost to anyone who has purchased the software since mid-May.
Konfabulator allows anyone to create widgets that run on the users desktop and is similar to the technology Apple included in the latest release of OS X, Tiger. You can find the software for Windows (2000/XP) and Mac on Yahoo’s widget site. There is even a tutorial on creating your own widget and the gallery boasts over a 1000 widgets.
