Yahoo continues it's xmas shopping spree

1) with the aquisition of Del.icio.us – the "social bookmarking" tool, which is just fabolous for finding new interesting sites, the get the next piece in "Social Software" or "Social Networking", complementing their Flickr offering social photo sharing (altough not to compare with a full-fledged photo-community)

Reuter's PR

WMW discussion

2) the rename of the widget toolkit Konfabultator to "Yahoo Widget Engine" – this is a cool tool that Yahoo already aquired in July 2005 – but gave it a new major release today ... give this toolkit a try… 1000s of very fancy and free plugins for your desktop enhancement available there …

3) announced a deal integrating the popular MovableType blogging software into Yahoo's Web Hosting service.

"By bundling MovableType and web hosting, Yahoo! is targeting businesses and independent professionals "seeking to maintain high-traffic blogs on a scalable, reliable platform". more

Yahoo can now integrate more social aspects of internet users than before – and with del.icio.us they are a step ahead of Google again :-)