SproutBuilder Flexes Its Muscles

June 11th, 2008 by Phil

It’s always nice to pop the hood and take a look at what drives a favorite web application. In the latest issue of Adobe Edge Julia Campagna reveals some of the technical wizardry behind Sproutbuilder, the free Flash authoring, viral marketing web application.

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/june2008/articles/article4/index.html?trackingid=DEKYH

Adobe Edge: June 2008 via kwout

The Sproutbuilder web application makes it easy to build and distribute interactive Flash widgets like this:

Julia describes the some of the key architecuural components of the application as:

  • Flex 3 - to create the rich client interface.
  • Drupal, PHP and Apache on the server side.
  • Amazon S3 for content delivery.

To get a feel for the powerful simplicity of the application take a look at this demonstration featuring the new Ribbit, Seismic Video, Google Forms and Twitter integration.

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