Yahoo! Acquires Konfabulator
Wanted to do a quick post here now so people caught it before they went to bed, I’ll post much more about this in the next few days.
Yahoo buys maker of ‘widget’ applications (Detroit News)
Yahoo! Acquires Konfabulator (Macworld.com)
I’m bursting with excitement and pride that we were able to get this done, this is something that my boss and I started working almost immediately after I was hired at Y! back in April.
If you’re looking to try out Konfabulator, download it here (direct links to Mac OS X or Windows binaries).
Developers who want to learn how to make their own widgets, download documentation and tutorials here.
If you’re already using Konfabulator and you want to check out the hundreds of cool widgets that Konfabulator’s developer community has created, check out the widget gallery here.
Update: Staying up late to catch the insomniac and international blog reaction, this is a lot of fun. Dori says "holy crap". RD says "OMG!" Bob says "pretty smooth move". Slashdot seems excited after they RTFA. The Mercury News covered the story on their blog and said they have plans to port their own Mac-only widget to Konfabulator — awesome! Scoble squeezes a mention of this in alongside a mention of a totally unrelated tablet PC thingie that nobody will ever use — didn’t they teach you not to bury the lede in J-school, my man?
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Woah.
:)
love your work!
Greetings,
Interesting! I’m a Konfabulator user myself although it’s mostly just for fun little toys (it was cheap enough that I paid for it), but I came to your blog after running into a fascinating back-and-forth on the eBay API some time ago.
I was hoping to talk to you about it, and get some feedback about some issues I have with respect to my open source non-API app and what eBay could do to make it even possible to convert, but I take it you’ve moved on. (I did too; I used to be a PayPal employee doing scraping (and converted it to eBay API work) for them, was picked up by eBay in the purchase, but moved on after a few months of eBay ownership, so I don’t have that decent a contact list.)
Ah well, I shant be sad for my loss of potential insight, but hope that your new position puts you less in conflict with folks. :)
– Morgan
Uh, thanks?
What sort of api enhancements are you guys planning? Would be nice to see some sort of charting capability to be able to adapt it for business use?
Keep your eyeball on developer.yahoo.net, it’ll all be announced there when it’s available!
Outstanding! Thanks.
igor