eBay opened up submissions for their eBay widget contest yesterday. The contest is open until February 22nd, 2008. If you're a Flex developer and interested in building out an eBay widget, you'll want to check this contest out.

Widgets will be judged by the following criteria: 40% for user interface and presentation, 40% for innovative Integration of eBay Shopping Web Services and 20% for widget portability (weight in kb and configurability).

Get more information on the eBay widget contest.

Alan Greendyk, a very talented developer from a large financial services firm, took third place and $10 K in the Documentum 6 Web Services Developer Challenge contest with a Flex and LiveCycle application. The app that Alan built was a Flex application that interacted with LiveCycle and allowed people to easily publish documents into Documentum, and also easily search that same Documentum repository. I was shown the application last week, and was impressed at how easy it was to use (having used Documentum in the past) and the fact that the app was built by one single person.

EMC released a press release of the contest today, and I noticed that the second place finisher was also an RIA application. Five developers used the Google Web Toolkit to build an RIA UI to Documentum. Its great to see two Rich Internet Applications taking two of the top 3 spots in the contest. It does appear that RIAs are gaining attention with large enterprises - Flex had great success at the Salesforce.com event a while back as well.

The Digg Flash API Contest has selected its finalists, and currently a Flex application is currently leading the votes. DiggCharts uses the Flex charting components in a cool way, displaying the number of diggs that an article has received over a period of time. Not only does it look cool, but its also really useful.

There are a number of other Flex applications, and some Apollo applications as well. Wordweb is one of the Flex based applications that doesn't require Apollo to run. Check out the contest to see a complete list of all the finalists.