Well there was some interesting news the other day when Yahoo purchased Konfabulator and created Yahoo! Widgets as a result.

I was always a big fan of Konfabulator but not enough of a fan to pay for it. When Apple’s Dashboard came out, it seemed like the end for the little guy but they’ve managed to pull thru and (I guess) made some money on the way… Good for them!!

I think that at least initially, this is an awesome move by Yahoo. Aside from putting them on the desktops of a lot of users, it will hopefully be a serious competition to Dashboard on the Mac side of things.

But most importantly of all, it will be a good way for them to start exporting their large array of web services to users in a more concrete (slightly less geeky) way.