Konfabulator, the company behind the widgets (special mini desktop apps: visual elements on the screen performing a task), had been sold to Yahoo. Konfabulator is now for free.
Currently companies like StockPhotoFinder, Shutterstock and iStockphoto are taking advantage of the widget technology for their customers.
Recently the StockPhotoFinder introduced a widget for desktop image search.
The founders of Konfabulator, which launched their product on february 10, 2003, have created a pretty darn cute comic strip in 10 chapters about how their company was founded and finally sold to Yahoo.
