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Arlo Rose
post Jul 25 2005, 11:17 AM
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Hi all,

Yes, all the news is true. We've been bought by Yahoo!

We're really happy about this and look forward to many years of continuing development, innovation, and damn cool Widgets.

We love this stuff. Seriously. And that's why we went to Yahoo. We'll now have the ability to not only have access to feeds for their hundreds of properties, but we're in a position to help define how they work and what they are. And our Widget developers get an extra special treat. This here forum is the new bootstrap Yahoo Developer community. We're hoping to use Konfabulator as a way to get some amazing Yahoo technology to developers.

I'm about as tired as they come right now, but there are a few people here that I'm sure will pop in and explain the wonders that are our new lives at Yahoo.

We're excited. Widgets for everyone!


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post Jul 25 2005, 11:21 AM
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What about releasing 2.1? Or is the release of 2.1 actually the news you've been bought by Yahoo!?
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post Jul 25 2005, 11:52 AM
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post Jul 25 2005, 12:24 PM
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Three cheers for the Pixoria crew!
Congratulations. I hope they made you so rich that you can each have fiery-robot security installed at your beachfront villas. You deserve it.



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post Jul 25 2005, 12:30 PM
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Congratulations guys.

I'm sure that you have worked unbelievably hard for this, and you must be really excited.
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post Jul 25 2005, 12:44 PM
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Congrats from Romania for Pixoria ! ! !

It must be so damn cool for you right now biggrin.gif

I can hardly wait for the new widgets biggrin.gif

I'm sure by then I will have my Mac Mini installed at my desk, do I won't be forced to emulate OSX biggrin.gif

Konfabulator RULES ! And now that is free, it's even BETTER !
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post Jul 25 2005, 01:18 PM
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Congratulations you guys! Obviously this means great things to come. I can hardly wait! cool.gif



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post Jul 25 2005, 01:22 PM
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Congratulations! I love it when a team like yours with such a cool product hits "internet gold". It was much deserved!!!
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post Jul 25 2005, 01:59 PM
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Congratulations Arlo !!!!
Congratulations Perry !!!!
Congratulations Ed !!!!

It's wonderful to see someone's dream develop and flourish.

Great !

Piero

P.S. I have send the updated Nu Jongg to the Gallery but I don't see it appearing.
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post Jul 25 2005, 02:42 PM
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yeah, congratulations to Arlo & the crew at pixoria .. well done u guys !

.. and konfabulator being free now, thats just terriffic !

poor ol google & m$ now being wiithout widgets .... such a shame on them ! biggrin.gif
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post Jul 25 2005, 03:01 PM
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Congratulations, that's great news



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post Jul 25 2005, 03:07 PM
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And so, the last great reason for all my friends not to adopt Konfabulator falls with a mighty THUD! Thanks guys!

BTW, anyone got a good animation demo widget yet?



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post Jul 25 2005, 03:08 PM
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Hmmm, I just bought Konfabulator and now it's free... That is just my luck biggrin.gif

Let's hope Yahoo doesn't do to Konfabulator what AOL did to Winamp.
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post Jul 25 2005, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE(tcsdoc @ Jul 25 2005, 10:08 AM)

Hmmm, I just bought Konfabulator and now it's free...  That is just my luck  biggrin.gif 
Let's hope Yahoo doesn't do to Konfabulator what AOL did to Winamp.
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You can pretty much count on that happening, just waiting for them to load it up with spyware and the likes. Well here goes another great product down the toilet.
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post Jul 25 2005, 04:33 PM
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

(for the record, this was typed in slow motion)



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post Jul 25 2005, 04:40 PM
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Congratulations fellas, I'm now glad I waited so long to pay the shareware fee... blink.gif

Thanks for making this software great - you all deserve everything you can get out of it!



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post Jul 25 2005, 04:46 PM
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Top 5 Reasons this *might* not be a good thing...


5. Mac development of Konfab is going to slow to a crawl, compared to Windows development. The mac version will hit v2.3 at around the same time Windows hits v5.0...

4. The inevidable ad widget that is going to be required in order to even run Konfab...

3. Death of all current funcitoning 3rd party widgets...

2. Accessing of any information not on Y! will eventually be phased out...

1. Y! decides the whole Konfab thing isn't worth it so they scrap the whole thing...

Ugg, I'm really worried now... sad.gif



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post Jul 25 2005, 04:53 PM
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It never ceases to amaze me how many people revel in pissing and moaning.....

Congratulations Arlo, Perry and Ed! I have enjoyed your product for years and I look forward to the wonderful things yet to come.

Refund.....baaaaa. K was worth 20 ducats when I bought it and its still worth 20 decats today!
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post Jul 25 2005, 04:56 PM
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QUOTE(Bobby @ Jul 25 2005, 09:46 AM)

Top 5 Reasons this *might* not be a good thing...
5. Mac development of Konfab is going to slow to a crawl, compared to Windows development.  The mac version will hit v2.3 at around the same time Windows hits v5.0...
4. The inevidable ad widget that is going to be required in order to even run Konfab...
3. Death of all current funcitoning 3rd party widgets...
2. Accessing of any information not on Y! will eventually be phased out...
1. Y! decides the whole Konfab thing isn't worth it so they scrap the whole thing...
Ugg, I'm really worried now...  sad.gif
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Bobby
post Jul 25 2005, 04:57 PM
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QUOTE([LOF]skinnylegs @ Jul 25 2005, 08:53 AM)

It never ceases to amaze me how many people revel in pissing and moaning.....


Revel??? A single post of worry = reveling???

Interesting...



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