Yahoo! Keeps Consumers Connected with Yahoo! Widgets 4

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Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Widgets 4, a new version of the desktop Widgets platform. Yahoo! Widgets give consumers a live, at-a-glance view of their favorite Internet information and services on the desktop. This new version offers users and developers improved features and capabilities, including a new Widget Dock, new and improved Widgets, dramatically improved performance, new and streamlined installation, improved authoring tools and automatic updates.

Yahoo! Widgets 4 delivers improved performance and a host of new features to help users keep Widgets organized and easily accessible, including:
- Widget Dock – a brand new feature that provides a live, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet information and services. Users can auto-hide the Dock and attach it to any side or corner of multiple monitors.
- Dramatically improved performance – reduced memory consumption of individual Widgets by up to 40 percent.
- New Widgets by Yahoo! – Yahoo! introduces the Flickr Widget and the Yahoo! Gallery Widget.
- Streamlined installation – smaller download and a new Widget-centric installation process makes it easier than ever for consumers to get the Widget they want and for authors to promote their own Widgets.
- Improved authoring tools – new functionality and improved tools for Widget authors to build more powerful Widgets.
- Automatic updates – notification via the Widget Dock when newer versions of the Widgets in use are available and ready for one-click upgrade.

Yahoo! Widgets 4 marks the release of the new Flickr Widget. The Flickr Widget is the most full-featured Widget Yahoo! has ever developed and is an extension of Yahoo!'s popular Flickr photo-sharing service. The Flickr Widget helps users easily display, upload and tag Flickr photos. Users can now drag-and-drop larger groups of photos, and edit their tags and information without ever opening a web browser.

Yahoo! Widgets 4 also includes the new Yahoo! Gallery Widget, which provides easy access to the Yahoo! Widget Gallery, the largest collection of desktop Widgets available anywhere on the Internet, with over 4,300 desktop Widgets developed and submitted by independent Widget authors from around the world. With the new Gallery Widget, users can find thousands of Widgets right from their desktop and start running them with one click.

All Widgets in the Yahoo! Widget Gallery are safe and ready for download, and can be managed on a user's desktop via the Widget Dock. In addition, this new release features updates to the 21 popular Yahoo! Widgets that came pre-loaded with the previous version.

Yahoo! Widgets 4, powered by the popular Konfabulator desktop development platform, provides an accessible standards-based platform for web-technology developers to extend their reach to the desktops of millions of use. In addition, Yahoo! is the only major provider to offer a cross-OS widgets platform — Mac OS X, Win 2000, Win XP and Windows Vista.

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