For those of you who haven’t heard of Konfabulator it’s a Yahoo! company which makes widgets for your desktop similar to those widgets you might have seen on Macs. There are post-it note widgets, widgets for the weather, and now thanks to Liz Kao a widget to get all your salesforce.com news. The first step in getting started is to download the program from www.konfabulator.com. Next download the salesforce.com news widget. You might have to right click on that link and save the target to your desktop. All told it takes two or three minutes to set up. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

If you're looking for other widgets, click here to see a posting on the sforce blog about developing widgets. There's also an example of a konfabulator task widget for salesforce which you can try out.