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post Mar 1 2012, 11:47 PM
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The Desktop Widgets website will be shutting down on April 10, 2012. Developer uploads of new Widgets will end on April 3, 2012. Due to this, consumer downloads of new and updated desktop widgets will end on April 3, 2012. Desktop widgets will continue to work for the foreseeable future with a new Consumer Terms of Use: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/konfa...terms-1821.html

Now the good news. Konfabulator is certainly not dead. Konfabulator is what powers more than 8 million TVs running Yahoo! Connected TV Apps. Yahoo! TV Apps are extremely easy to develop. The TVs run Linux and use a specially modified version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine, a fifth generation application platform derived from the legendary Konfabulator desktop widget platform. We have further extended and simplified widget development by building a JavaScript framework which abstracts most of the complexity from Konfabulator.

How to get started:
1. Get the Yahoo! Connected TV Widget Developer Kit (WDK)
2. Build something awesome!
3. Submit to Yahoo!
4. Your will go live and become available to millions of TVs around the world

Join the Yahoo! Connected TV forums to find out more.
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Cicerone Pavaloi
post Mar 3 2012, 12:42 AM
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Great. dry.gif
So, the widgets.yahoo.com site will be euthanized on April 10. What will happen to this forum?



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ateames
post Mar 9 2012, 10:07 PM
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QUOTE(Cicerone Pavaloi @ Mar 3 2012, 12:42 AM) *

Great. dry.gif
So, the widgets.yahoo.com site will be euthanized on April 10. What will happen to this forum?


The forum will be around until the 4th quarter of 2012. An exact date has not been determined yet but will be posted here when finalized.
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Cicerone Pavaloi
post Mar 29 2012, 09:58 PM
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I have submitted updated versions for both my widgets (One Butterfly 1.2 and the long - too long - awaited One Photo 2.0).
Fingers crossed...



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post Apr 5 2012, 09:21 PM
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Ok, the updated versions for both my widgets are listed in the gallery (for 2 days now), thank you. rolleyes.gif

But today no people names appear across the gallery pages, for the widgets and even the comments authors... Two weeks ago the widgets that use the yahoo login api to check the mail have stop working...

Does the widgets desktop engine (and the gallery) have to become ill before it dies?... sad.gif



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post Apr 5 2012, 09:33 PM
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QUOTE(Cicerone Pavaloi @ Apr 6 2012, 12:21 AM) *

Does the widgets desktop engine (and the gallery) have to become ill before it dies?... sad.gif


Ups... Scratch that.
I forgot that the gallery downloads should have been stopped already. dry.gif
I don't see the point of having a crippled gallery site running...


Anyway,
looks like that's all folks,
thanks for the ride,
bye.



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