Or Maybe It's Desktop Widgets That Everyone Will Fight Over
from the widgets-everywhere dept
So maybe it isn't blog searching that's the next big battlefield for search engines. A month and a half after Yahoo picked up widget maker Konfabulator and Google launched their Sidebar app, Microsoft is launching Microsoft Gadgets -- which is basically a clone of Konfabulator or Apple's Dashboard Widgets (itself a clone of Konfabulator). It's not hard to see why everyone's trying to jump out of the browser and onto the desktop, but that desktop is going to get pretty crowded pretty quickly.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Learn your history...
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Plenty of others made them as well. Some even sold them as shareware or commercial software - companies like Mark of the Unicorn.
That's the big difference between Tiger Widgets and Konfabulator. The Konfabulator license won't let you sell Widgets. That's why Tiger Widgets attracts the better developers.
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Microsoft has OS X envy
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Who care about who copied who. Widgets can be handy and as long as they aren't the exact same product from each company widgets will become better. Look at GUIs in general. If apple hadn't come out with OS X there would be no reason for Microsoft to make a better GUI.
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M$ Gadgets
Duh!
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Yawn. Active Desktop.
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