Sun Microsystems Enter’s the Widget Market with Zembly
Just recently, Sun Microsystems sponsored a collaborative environment for building and hosting social widgets that can run on Facebook apps, Meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications.
The difference of Zembly versus other widget platforms/sites is that you can post your widget on Zembly and allow other people to use it to create their own widgets. Development is fairly easy and according to Sun, it only takes one line of code.
Vendors already using Zembly include: Amazon Web Services, Dapper, Flickr, Google, Meebo, Twitter, Yahoo Developer Network, YouTube, Zillow.com, and Zvents.
The benefit for Sun is that its Solaris OS, Java, Glassfish application server, and MYSQL are being used. Also, the SUN’s network.com cloud computing platform is in use. Consequently, SUN gets a lot of marketing from all of this.