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January 29, 2008 3:46 PM PST

Sprout: Now that's a Flash builder

by Rafe Needleman

Sprout is a Flash authoring environment that puts the two Flash authoring environments I just covered to shame. Completely Flash based, it lets you put all your media into a Flash app that's easily pushed into widgets.

Spout widgets also let viewers subscribe to updates to a presentation via RSS, share them, and so on.

In the demo the CEO showed Spout's clear and capable authoring environment. Unfortunately I can't show you the authoring environment because it's not yet live on the site. There's a video of the authoring environment here. And here's a widget created with it:

Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe.
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by jeremy128 January 29, 2008 6:05 PM PST
I think that the link is wrong.
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by carnetor January 30, 2008 8:45 AM PST
Rafe,

Thanks for the post and nice comments, we really appreciate it! I invite your readers to join our private beta at: http://sproutbuilder.com/friendsofsprout

aloha,

carnet
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by Greenlantern81 January 31, 2008 1:24 PM PST
I was at demo as well and this app made the others look like a toy!! I have been in Flash development and development management for 4.5+ years now and this is the template tool that we have been waiting for. Kudos to this team!!!!
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by ionlygreat February 5, 2008 6:53 PM PST
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THISSSSS SOFTWARE!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH SPROUT!
Guys, i am serious, i went to the extent of registering for this forum just for writing this comment, that is how much i love this software...
btw, i think u guys at webware posted the wrong link to sprout up there...that one leads to some other website...the right site is www.sproutbuilder.com
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by TmDowling March 13, 2008 10:30 AM PDT
Time to return to sproutbuilder - it's in public beta, and it ROCKS! This is just amazing!
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by airforcenice123 July 8, 2008 1:02 AM PDT
Very cool! thanks green air force ones
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