Google and Yahoo Want to be Your Buddy

So Yahoo acquired a three person Palo Alto software company called Konfabulator. This company creates applications that live on your desktop and grab information, from stock quotes to the weather. What this deal does is helps you take any information available from Yahoo's properties and have it downloaded to your desktop. It's kind of like a butler crossed with a robot. Yahoo is going to allow third party developers create new useful applications for it. This is similar to what Google did with it's GoogleEarth.

Giving something away in order to receive traffic is an old strategy that works, and Yahoo made a great acquisition with this product. I'm going to play around with this. Lots of potential for fun.