Fascinating little tool. Somehow my 30 day trial ran out... even though I started my sprout a decade ago and just reactivated about a week or two ago. That's ok.
Anyway. It was cool but it overloaded my little old computer.
What is it?
"Sprout Builder is a web-hosted, visual authoring solution that allows creative professionals to quickly and easily create branded, rich-media content and widgets. "
Someone on the team needs to play with it. They have a subscription model.
Oh interesting I found an old test of Beth Kanter's and it has both sprout and gigya built in. I will try to post it to the sidebar. Check out the post it is pretty interesting- as is the norm for her. I find her blog to be an endless supply of information around nptech.
And Other Widget Builders:
Gigya- "
Gigya provides widget developers with free tools to help distribute and track their widgets. Our technology is the developer’s choice, used by more than 1,000 widget developers.
"We also offer companies using our Wildfire sharing technology the opportunity to generate additional revenue by choosing to take part in our widget advertising and distribution network."
I have a whitepaper from themKickapps
PS Godaddy.com and kickapps join forces.
Microsoft Popfly: Mostly game type widgets
Widget Gallery:
Widgetbox- Gallery of widgets searchable and tagged.
Zembly - described onthe Sun Microsystems blog 'Zembly is an application developing environment that is best described (by zembly developers) as "kind of like a wiki, but for applications," because it includes the power of the crowd. "
