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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Confabulator
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:56:43 -0400

Bear Kaufmann wrote:

Lawrence,
The answer is yes.
I actually just made a simple PIW search widget for Konfabulator.
Here's an image of it running attached below.

Cool!

Do you have a system that can run Konfabulator? We could see if it runs [on a different system].

I run winxp & assume it is for average webusers with winx systems. I heard about as I listened to the tech break mid-show during CBC's As It Happens - then rushed to post about it be4 I forgot details.

I was wondering if the Konfabulator widget-creator engine could allow piw users to custom tailor their
own piw-specific widgets - that would assume we might need source code to make software mods necessary to make this possible.
This is from the Konfabulator Yahoo page:

http://www.konfabulator.com/
Yahoo? Yahoo!

Yup, the big announcement we've been sneaking around and working up to is that we've been acquired by Yahoo!. We're really excited about this, and here's the big reason why... they have free espresso on campus! That's right, no more $80 a week Starbucks bills!

Another reason we're excited about it, is the very cool big picture. See, when we first thought of Konfabulator, one of the key pieces was accessing internet content. Well guess what Yahoo has boat-loads of? Yup. And what's really great is that they're starting to open it up to everyone in a format that's useable outside the traditional browser, as XML feeds. Guess how they're going to provide real-world examples of how to use this stuff. Yup... Konfabulator. So really, depending on how you look at it, we're taking over Yahoo! We're going to make it so the best way to access their data is via slick little Widgets.


But what about the developers?

We are actually focusing really hard on making sure developers are first class citizens in our new home. With all this cool Konfabulator stuff comes Yahoo's new XML APIs. Since we're kick-starting Yahoo's Developer Network, this means that our current Konfabulator community will become the founding members of Yahoo's Developer community. Widgets like TV Scraper won't need to scrape any more (there goes the name) and will get our full support during development. Awesome. Grassroots support from third party developers is one of the primary reasons why Yahoo is so excited about Konfabulator, and that Yahoo is 100% commited to keeping Konfabulator free and open for anyone to build Widgets (and to create a massive installed base for developers to distribute their Widgets to).


Are you going to change the name?

Yes, to Yahooulator! and Yidgets.

Okay, maybe not.

Actually, the overall platform is now "Yahoo! Widgets". The core engine is still Konfabulator, and will remain that for a while, but don't be too surprised if that's slowly transitioned out. I know, we all love the name, but how do you tell your grandma "Go download Konfabulator!" and have her know what on earth you're talking about?





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