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November 28, 2007

Yahoo Widgets Upgrade: Now With Flash and New Friends

Nick Gonzalez

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yahoo_widgets.pngGoogle gadgets came to the Mac today and now Yahoo is releasing an update of their own. They’ve upgraded their Konfabulator widget platform to 4.5 (not currently up) and overhauled their site’s user interface to incorporate better user feedback.

While you can get all the technical improvements from Yahoo’s own upcoming announcement. The highlights are support for Flash and HTML and the addition of some new partners. Flash and HTML support mean that widget development won’t only be more familiar to web developers, but also more easily support new applications such as video.

Yahoo is also following through on some previous partnership announcements, making Netvibes UWA available as desktop widgets as well as adding the widgets from widget analytics services Clearspring and MuseStorm.

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  1. Yahoo! Widgets se Actualiza!

    December 21st, 2007 at 12:06 pm

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  1. Angela Hayden

    November 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    Woo hoo. Yahoo.

    But, alas, Yahoo crashes on me all the time. I can’t stand it.

  2. GSpotByGoogle

    November 28th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    google gadgets? never heard of it.

  3. Edward J. Stembler

    November 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    Their new AJAX-style site and installer plugin is confusing. Also, the app does not work on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

  4. eT

    November 29th, 2007 at 5:41 am

    Until now I can not see any installer for the new Google Gadgets for Mac.
    Maybe this will change during the day…

  5. pss

    November 29th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    Alas, I’m with Angela on this — Yahoo Widgets, as cool and commanding a presence as they are, hang my laptop and cause other bizarre behaviors when loaded.

    I know it’s not Yahoo’s fault BUT all my server-class software (app servers, databased, et al) apps that I work with day-in and day-out work fine…

  6. V-Girl

    November 29th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    Not sure what is the point of these web widgets if Firefox offers a great add-on that can extract data from any kind of website. Does anyone know any really useful widget? On the other hand, I have more than 20 web browser macros that I use daily.

  7. basilar artery migraine

    November 29th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    Does Yahoo ever come up with any original ideas?

  8. buy penny stock

    November 29th, 2007 at 10:40 am

    I am afraid not…

  9. MR

    November 29th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    I’m looking to make a widget out of my RSS feed, anyone know of tools to do that?

  10. The Hater

    November 29th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    @6,7: You guys are idiots if you think Google gadgets was first.

  11. Steve Ballmer

    November 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    Yahoo is really on the ball people!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  12. Jake

    November 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Looks like a good alternative to Adobe AIR for taking web apps to the desktop. Which is better and easier?

  13. Dave s

    November 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Make a Vortex out of your RSS feed at realtimematrix.com

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