woo! I’m so excited that Yahoo! acquired Konfabulator. It is a neat product that brings all sorts of beautiful widgets to the desktop. Ray uses a lot of them to check RSS feeds, the weather and ping rates to our servers (like this one).

Konfabulator, now Yahoo! Widgets, are rich, beautiful and now free! Man… this is a dilemma. Just as I start getting back into doing some personal Flash development this happens. Well, Flash will still probably win out for now, but this will go pretty high on the ever expanding list of things I want to play with.

Now we just need to get Flash working spectacularly with them, and I can kill two bids with one stone!

EDIT: just read the O’Reilly radar post about the acquisition. It calls out the fact that Yahoo! is acquiring a desktop client applications as interesting and noteworthy since we are a web company. Yahoo! is certainly a web company, but we are also a BIG company.

Personally, I see Yahoo! widgets as a welcome additition to our existing destop clients like Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Desktop Search, Yahoo! Toolbar, and Yahoo! Music Engine. This isn’t new for us, just a continuation on bringing content to users in many different ways.