So the talk of Ebay “talking” with Microsoft and Yahoo! about what to do about Google. Whatever.
This is a company that is running banner ads — above the fold no less — on their shopping search results page. Such a compelling experience.
Salvation comes from within.
Get a clue Ebay… you’re easy prey.
I remember checking out Konfabulator quite some time ago before they had a Windows version of their “widgets” application. I thought that the idea of widgets was awesome. I’m not the only one who thought it was great, since Apple fully copied them in the release of Tiger’s Dashboard feature.
Widgets are little applications that you can “stick” to your wall paper that automagically update themselves via the web (e.g., a current weather widget) or offer a quick shortcut to services (e.g., the Flickr uploader widget).
Since downloading the application a couple of days ago, I now have widgets stuck all over the place… well, at least all over the place on my second monitor. I have to say that this is by far one of the best applications (besides Photoshop and blogging) for dual monitors. I’ve got a calculator widget, a current Digg article widget, a bunch of weather widgets, a Flickr uploader and a rotating Flickr picture display widget.
All Yahoo! has to do to be successful with this application is to just let them continue what they were already doing while giving them the “fire hose” of Yahoo! distribution.
Just please Yahoo! don’t f’ this application up.
