SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Web 2.0 EXPO BOOTH 545 -- Sprout (http://www.sproutbuilder.com/), the premier platform for easily creating, publishing and managing rich Flash content, including widgets, minisites, banners and more, today launched a Software Development Kit (SDK) allowing third parties to integrate their applications with Sprout. To learn more, visit http://www.sproutbuilder.com/developers.

Web services and developers that integrate their services with Sprout benefit by introducing their service to Sprout's growing user base, and by empowering their existing users to mashup their service within Sprout for distribution across any number of web sites. The Sprout SDK has universal appeal as it uses XML and JavaScript, making integration easy and giving users full control over the editing of custom properties.

Also announced today, Sprout v1.5 includes components for Google Forms, PollDaddy, Ribbit, Seesmic and Twitter, making it easy to collect data, survey audiences, place phone calls, or show off vlogs or Twitters directly from a sprout. Also released were several new animation effects, a new 'Help' panel with tutorials and 'how-to' videos, and an enhanced Undo/Redo/History function.

"The Sprout SDK allows all types of web services to easily integrate into our platform, joining the likes of Twitter, PollDaddy, Google, Yahoo! and others," said Carnet Williams, CEO of Sprout. "We look forward to working with additional partners on the Sprout platform."

The Sprout SDK provides developers with a wide range of property types and editors like number spinners, date and color/font selectors for manipulating and customizing components. Users can define custom property types and associate them with custom editors, and Sprout records when custom components are initialized, activated, selected and removed.

Components can alert the builder and other components using a topic-based event bus. For example, a news widget can publish "new article" events incorporating a sound widget. When a new article arrives, the sound widget produces a bell sound. Different versions of the same component can be created with simultaneous hosting.

About Sprout

Sprout is the first online platform for easily creating, publishing and managing sophisticated Flash content on the Web. With Sprout, anyone can quickly and easily build widgets, minisites, banners and other rich media content for their blog, social networking profile or web site. Sprout is based in San Francisco, CA, and Honolulu, HI. To learn more, please visit http://www.sproutbuilder.com/