It's interesting that Yahoo is acquiring Konfabulator (via: MacWorld) and that they will be releasing it as free software. I've been a fan of Konfabulator for about a year and a bit - and even prefer their widgets to the dashboard ones (for now anyway). Yahoo seems to be a buying machine, here is a list of their other fairly recent acquisitions:

• June 2005 - DialPad (VoIP)


• June 2005 - blo.gs (blog directory)


• March 2005 - Flickr (photo sharing)


• Dec 2004 - Wulf Networks (technology to transfer digital files to mobile devices)


• Oct 2004 - Strata Labs (email search software)


• Sept 2004 - MusicMatch (music jukebox)


• Aug 2004 - FareChase (travel)


• July 2004 - OddPost (email service)


• Mar 2004 - Kelzoo (price comparison)