KickApps Integrates With Joomla!™

Users of Open Source Content Management System Get Single Sign On for Registered Member Database

NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2007 — KickApps, the leading on demand social media platform, today announced the integration of the Company’s popular community-building platform with one of the industry’s most commonly used open source content management systems (CMS), Joomla!.  Developers and web publishers using this popular CMS can now easily integrate their KickApps powered communities with their existing websites to fuel audience growth and engagement via social networking, user-generated content, programmable video, and Widgets for content syndication.

“This integration teams the best white label social media platform with one of the world’s most reputable content management systems,” said Mitch Pirtle, Chief Spacemonkey, Spacemonkey Labs, and co-founder of Joomla!.  “The best websites and blogs today are taking advantage of both an open source content management system and social media to grow and engage their audiences. Developers now have an easier pathway between managing the produced content of their websites and the social media experiences that they’re building out, and also to provide a seamless experience for their audiences.”

Today’s announcement demonstrates KickApps’ ongoing commitment to eliminating barriers to entry for any Web publisher and developer wishing to leverage social media. With this integration – made simple via a plug-in – developers and publishers can provide a seamless login and registration experience between their Joomla! installation and their KickApps community, enabled by the KickApps Single Sign-on API. This results in a smoother experience for the end user and further deepens the white label relationship with KickApps. Additionally, live Joomla! instances with existing members do not need to do an initial member export into KickApps; existing members will be registered into KickApps passively as they sign in to Joomla!. To download the integration plug-in, please visit: http://www.kickdeveloper.com/tutorials_joomla.html.

“Web publishers and developers using Joomla! understand the power of flexible Web software that enables them to easily self-publish and foster community online,” said Alex Blum, CEO for KickApps. “Making it easy to create social media experiences that match a site’s brand, look, feel and functionality is an essential ingredient in the KickApps white label formula. We are excited to help developers up the ante by incorporating the latest innovations in social media to help them extend their content and easily provide richer online experiences.”

One of the first clients to take advantage of the KickApps Joomla! plugin is Training for Warriors, a project created by Joomla! developers PixelPraise.com and KickApps' leading small business developer, Haylie McCort of DotcomCowgirl, both based in Austin, Texas.

Kyle Ledbetter of PixelPraise and I are thrilled with the ability to now offer a seamless Joomla! - KickApps single sign on solution to our customers,” said McCort.  “The new SSO plugins were easy to install, and allowed us to import our existing KickApps community members into Joomla!, negating the need for double logins.  Joomla!'s easy to use, yet robust CMS, is a perfect match for KickApps social media community features, and the new SSO plugins make for one killer mashup that's powerful, customizable and yet economical for all our business customers.”

About KickApps

Selected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable social, interactive, dynamic, distributed and data-informed web experiences. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers. Clients include: Budget Travel, H&R Block, U2, CW Television, Guinness World Records, Special Olympics, HBO, Cinemax, Cox Television, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and thousands of other sites. For more information, visit www.kickapps.com and www.kickdeveloper.com.

KickApps Public Relations