It’s still buggy and missing a lot of features, but as of revision 469 check out the following:
$ melange –replace &
$ /usr/local/share/screenlets/SidebarUA/SidebarScreenlet.py &

$ /usr/local/share/screenlets/Meter/MeterScreenlet.py –server=Sidebar
$ /usr/local/share/screenlets/DigiClock/DigiClockScreenlet.py –server=Sidebar
Also, drop me a comment if you know of any out-of-branch screenlets whose authors haven’t been contacted yet.

Its time!
Cast your vote for Universal Applet’s new name over at doodle, (Re)cast your vote at Zoho or drop a comment below with a new name.

Universal Applets needs it’s own forums.
Up until now, we’ve been using the Screenlets forums, despite it’s history of flamewars and rampant accusations. Last week, I announced my decision to fork Screenlets after Whise (the main developer of Screenlets) started making new public accusations against me on the forums. This week, Whise began abusing his moderator [...]

There’s a lot going on in the Universal Applets community at the moment, so I’ve decided to start writing semi-weekly wrap-up posts summarizing everything that’s happened. Here goes news roundup #1:

(Thanks, Kwaanens)
Forking
I know the news is already out all over the forums, so I’ll try to keep this short: There’s been some tension [...]

NOTE: Some of this post is no longer relevant. Please use Universal Applet’s internal documentation.
At the moment, there’s very little documentation for developers describing the Universal Applets architecture. I’m hoping to roll out a stable release within the next week or two, and I should have the time to write up some docs after that.
In [...]

Ubuntu Brainstorm is quite nice. I submitted my first idea today:

I had some trouble booting into my computer earlier this week. It’s fixed now, but the Universal Applets release that I promised will be delayed by a few days.

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

I just pushed the first real commit of my branch of Screenlets to Launchpad.
It’s still a regression from the end users perspective. Don’t bother looking at it unless you’re a developer.  There’s a slightly longer explanation here.
Quick side note: I really need to write a whole post about GHOP. For now, I’d just like [...]

I’ve created a new branch of Screenlets on Launchpad for Universal Applets. Right now the branch is just the same as trunk, but I’ll be pushing a revision soon.
Here’s a screenshot of how things are looking right now: