This months site isn’t actually a site.  I know, only the second month of this and I’m already breaking the rules.  For this month I’ll be making a widget.

Sometime last year Yahoo bought the Konfabulator widget engine.  The big change they made was to make it free, greatly expanding it’s user base.  It is now the Yahoo! Widget Engine.  Widgets are written in Javascript.  There is also config file, .kon, that is XML based.  This will be my first attept at writing a widget, but Yahoo! did a nice job documenting the proccess and it looks pretty easy.

I guess I should descrive the function of the widget.  It will simply be an extension of the RSStalker site.  Users can add a product, wishlist or category from Amazon.com and get notified when the price changes.  Since the RSStalker site already provides XML feeds this widget will essentially be a reader for the site.

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