yahoo keeps buying my stuff.
Things that I use keep getting bought by Yahoo.
del.icio.us, konfabulator, flickr…
I can’t decide if that’s good for all of them, cause now they have money and stuff, or if it’s bad for the people who use it.
To me Yahoo seems like a better version of AOL. I don’t like installing any of their stuff though, because they put all that toolbar crap in your browser and links all over to their fantastic website. And yes Mike, Microsoft does that too, but I don’t install that many of their products either. I much prefer Google’s approach at installing, which is you install the one product you want and that’s all. No “PLEASE USE US MORE” links or “required” toolbars, no plea to set your homepage to msn.com or yahoo.com.
Plus they take a perfectly good name and brand it in a lame way. Already Konfabulator is now known as the quite excitingly renamed to “Yahoo! Widgets” which run on the awesome “Yahoo! Widget Engine” hopefully del.icio.us doesn’t turn into “Yahoo! Saved Links You Can Share” and Flickr doesn’t become “Yahoo! Flash Based Picture Storage and Viewing.”
Time will tell what happens to these products…
Meanwhile I haven’t upgraded to the newest Konfabulator Yahoo! Widget Engine cause I’m skeptical that it’ll remain as useful. Though in truth i don’t like it as much as I initially did when i installed it, most of the widgets seem to use more than an insignificant amount of the CPU, which is annoying. they should work on the performance of the engine so that an analog clock doesn’t take 2% of the CPU to display, that’s pretty lame.