KickApps v3.3 & the Launch of App Studio
We released v3.3 of the KickApps Platform this morning with some very exciting new features. You can get the details on KickDeveloper.
A big part of this release is the launch of the KickApps App Studio, formerly known as the Widget Studio. The original Widget Studio launched in January 2008 and changed the way people create custom widgets and players (video, photos and audio). Using Adobe’s Flex technology, we make it extremely easy for anyone to create widgets and players with a Photoshop-like, drag-and-drop interface.
Since its launch, we’ve continued to add functionality, including 3rd party web services like video ad networks (we integrated Google Video Adsense, Scanscout, Real Media 24/7 and Doublelick DART). With this release we’re now offering 3rd party applications–starting with Meebo and Yahoo! Maps.
Our goal is to be the complete solution for web publishers to create, deploy and manage every aspect of their website. The App Studio takes us a step closer to that and here’s what it means:
Developers: KickApps is now a distribution platform for application developers to distribute their applications to thousands of top-tier web publishers. KickApps and the App Studio now effectively becomes a new marketplace for creating and distributing applications. Developers now have access to over 50k web publishers, including some of the largest in the world, e.g. National Geographic, Guinness World Records and San Francisco 49ers.
Web Publishers: This moves us closer to being that single solution for creating and making applications from the global web application development community available to web publishers that are looking to build the next generation website and applications. Similar to the way Facebook Platform connects developers with consumers, the App Studio connects developers with web publishers.
We’ll be making our plug in APIs for the App Studio available generally in early Q2.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
[...] launched its new KickApps App Studio yesterday, which the company hopes will become a new marketplace for developers to create and [...]
January 14th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
This is a good step forward, but there needs to be more.
I have a client using KA that desperately wants closed groups and forums and end-user management of the same. How close are we on those things?
January 26th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Great work, but we really need a way for customers/administrators to delete communities. Please add that capability to your next release, as efforts in contacting your support team have not been fruitful. Put more control in clients’ hands and we will quit bugging you.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:00 am
[...] the industry’s leading on-demand social media, video player and widget platform, launches the KickApps App Studio, the next generation of its drag-and-drop Widget and Video Player authoring solution. Users of the [...]
February 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Having the plugin API available is very important. It gives us the comfort of knowing we can take control where necessary. Without it, we wouldn’t sign up.