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Yahoo! concocts a spicier new version of Widgets and Konfabulator
Yahoo! has launched an updated version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine and gallery. Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5 has the same look and feel on your desktop as version 4.0, but there are some changes in the way widgets are created and organized.
First, Yahoo! has retooled its online widget gallery to give you more information about what each widget does. Users now also have a quick view of the most downloaded, highest rated and newest widgets, and can share Widgets directly with friends on IM, email, a Yahoo! Widget badge, del.icio.us, Digg and Reddit.
Second, there's now support for Flash and HTML based widget design. Yahoo! has also teamed up with the NBA to vote on All Stars, RockYou to create and watch slideshows on the desktop, and the Netvibes UWA will now be available as a Yahoo! Desktop Widget from the Netvibes Ecosystem. And if you still aren't satisfied, Yahoo! Finance has also improved their powerful stock Widget.
Check out a screeenshot of the new RockYou Yahoo! Widget after the jump.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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seba said 11:20PM on 11-28-2007
Yahoo widgets are great! I am sure this version will be even better than the previous one
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Jeff Goebel said 8:24AM on 11-29-2007
The weirdest thing I found on the Yahoo widgets site is... you can't find any way to download the engine. It's not there anywhere. I looked and looked and looked and admit I may be an idiot if you found it... but I couldn't.
I downloaded a widget and it installed both... but I wasted time looking for the engine itself.
(The Sirius Radio player is essential in my life)
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Agus said 10:06AM on 11-29-2007
It's true... it took a while for me to find the engine also
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