After several weeks of hard work and a big sprint we are proud to announce the public release of Sprout Builder Version 1.5 today. We were lucky to get coverage from Techcrunch and Mashable this morning.. thanks guys! There are many new features that Austin will post in a Changelog, but here's a teaser:

The 1.5 release will increase the ease of use and robustness of the Sprout platform and will include the following new features:

• Undo/Redo/History: Sprout now keeps track of your last 20 actions per page in your Sprout! No more fears of moving your objects a few pixels by accident!
• Google Forms Component: Survey your users and receive feedback directly into your Google Spreadsheets
• Twitter Component: Display your Tweets directly in your Sprout!
• Ribbit Component: Make phone calls from your Sprout!
• Seesmic Video Component: Show off your Seesmic vlogs
• Help Panel: Get help, tutorials, and watch HOTWO videos while you are building your sprout.
• Animation effects: Want your videos to 'fly in from the left'? We're adding several new animation effects that you can apply your sprout's elements
• Post Sprouts to Facebook's mini-feed, events, and groups: Use the Public Sprout (seed) Page's URL to post "Facebook Shared Links"