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Zembly - Helping you widgetize, one app at a time
Do you have an idea for a widget or Facebook app? Maybe you either don't have the time or the full knowledge to actually make it?
You reallllly want to make Wolverines vs. Dracula Part 8 for Facebook, and it frustrates you. Well be frustrated no more, in steps Zembly.
As you know, companies have been formed around building Facebook apps, some of them have become wildly successful AND profitable. Now it's our turn.
Zembly is funded by Sun Microsystems and targets easy creation of applications for Facebook, OpenSocial, meebo, and other social platforms. Not to mention, they're blowing open the barrier to entry on creating these things, and starting a community around doing just that.
Today, Zembly has opened a private beta of their site which lets you very easily create widgets and apps in your browser. Check out their blog for more details.
So show us what you got, make your best app and link it up in the comments for all to see! Maybe you can create the next Scrabulous or Oregon Trail. Minus the lawsuits and the whole dying of dysentery thing of course.

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...