Yahoo Buys Maker of 'Widget' Applications

"Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customized information without opening a Web browser..."

It's nice to see that these guys didn't wind up fading into oblivion after Apple introduced its own take on widgets - with "Dashboard". BTW this means that Konfabulator is now FREE, helpful if you are not yet running 10.4.