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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Beyond the Browser

Yahoo has bought the guys that make Konfabulator widgets - tiny little interface widgets that sit on your computer desktop and display information like traffic, weather or winning lottery numbers.

This is a small part of the next-generation Internet in which we will be sharing information using applications other than the Web browser. (I used to use Konfabulator until the registration nagging got to me.)

There's more information in Washington Post's "Acquisition of Pixoria Moves Yahoo Beyond the Browser."

Internet portal Yahoo Inc. said yesterday that it has acquired Pixoria Inc., a small software company that makes tools that allow computer users to check traffic or weather information via the Internet without having to open a browser window.

For Yahoo, it's a step toward a possible next version of Web use in which consumers have customized information streamed to their computers instead of having to use a browser to go find what they want.

'We think this is where the Web is headed in its next generation,' said Toni Schneider, vice president of Yahoo Developer Networks. 'For us, it's great -- we can reach beyond the browser, beyond what we can do in a one-size-fits-all Web site.'

Also, check out the announcement at Pixoria.

posted by Tim Beidel at 7/26/2005 07:33:00 AM

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