Yahoo buys konfabulator!
I just had to get in on this one.
The moment that I first saw this pop into my RSS reader I just *knew* an absurd number of blogs were going to write about this. See i was right. I have more links to fill and nothing to say!
Next-up, yahoo kicks self in ass for buying a worthless company.
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July 25th, 2005 @ 15:39:06
Clever post, however I think you might be missing the larger picture. Yahoo didn’t buy a worthless company, they just bought what Google and AOL can’t which is a brand/functionality presence on the desktop, outside of the browser. The implications of this are far ranging and with the entire YDN working on widgets along with the konfabulator development community (which functions more or less as open source), the rate of innovation will double (at the very least) and this is what drives user loyalty.
Look at the last Yahoo purchase to get an idea of what this means.
July 25th, 2005 @ 22:58:45
Yahoo Buys Konfabulator
Well, Yahoo has done gone and bought Konfabulator outright. So now those of you who didn’t want to pay the $20 to have instant coolness and geek cred will now be able to get it for free (as in free beer).
This news also brings the release of K…
July 27th, 2005 @ 11:36:31
And thus you hit the nail on the head of why I don’t bother blogging about a lot of big stories. Unless it really affects me, there are half a million other blogs pointing to each other screaming about it already.
July 28th, 2005 @ 13:51:48
The funny thing is that two weeks ago I modded one of the widgets to access my blog www.ideasling.com . As a consequence of the purchase, the traffic to the blog went up 3 fold. But honestly, this is something I was pushing AOL to do while I was a product mgr there. Create small footprinted access points to AOL features, that are callable when someone wants access. Get away from the bloat.