At the last Palo Alto Facebook Developer’s Garage, the Facebook Platform and Connect teams announced the 3-6 month developer’s roadmap. This roadmap is publicly available on the Facebook developers site. This is an effort to keep the developers who are building applications and games well informed and not surprised by any of the changes.
We’ve gotten many requests to explain how to set up Google Analytics for Sprouts, so in this post we’ll share a video tutorial that explains how to do just that. *Designer and Professional levels only.
On Saturday November 21 between 12:00 AM and 1:00 AM PST (that’s tonight) our data center will be performing some emergency network maintenance which might cause service disruption for the Sprout Builder application for 10-15 minutes. If all goes well, however, no disruption should be noticed. The delivery of published sprouts will not be affected.
UPDATE: After working with Get Satisfaction for a couple months, we’ve decided to combine our community and ticketed support together using Zen Desk. You can read more about that change in this recent blog post Support Changes at Sprout.
Recently I was thinking about how a useful tool called “Jing” and Sprouts could work together.
Jing is a lot like Twitter at first: when you try it you might think, “Interesting, but when would I ever use it?” Then you start playing around with it, see how others are using it and you’re hooked.
This is a guest blog post by Michael Britt, host of The Psych Files podcast.
I recently had a conversation with Walter Gross, the Senior Director, Digital Strategy at EMI / Capitol Music Group about how his team of Flash developers / designers are using Sprout to create interactive Flash content quickly and efficiently. Walter has been immersed in the web and Flash design tools since the late ’90s, at a time when, as he puts it, was bombarded by “big and glitzy” Flash elements. Before Walter’s team had discovered Sprout, they were creating all of the content by hand-coding each element. Sprout has turned out to be a huge time-saver and made Walter’s team more efficient.
Sprout’s video player has been upgraded to better support YouTube videos by integrating their newly released AS3 Chromeless player.
Improvements include better playback quality and reliability. You’ll also notice there is now a YouTube logo which appears in the bottom right corner of the player (as it is does in all YouTube videos). In addition, the YouTube play button will appear in the center of the poster-frame image before the video starts playing, rather than our custom play button. When you pause, however, you’ll see our custom button.
There is one minor issue that we’ll be trying to resolve shortly involving the poster-frame. Currently, the poster frame is not showing up and the first image in the player is simply black. Also, when paused the image will be black. We’re working with YouTube to resolve this issue.
In our third Sprout Conversations, I had the opportunity to chat with Mark Delville, the co-founder of TxtMovieClub. Mark is an entrepreneur and Sprout power-user who is constantly leveraging social tools to grow his companies. Listen to our conversation to learn more about how Mark uses Sprout.
In the 2.4 release we made a number of improvements to the sprout loading process which speed things up for all sprouts. However, an additional benefit is obtained by sprouts that are published after the 2.4 release (late night, Pacific time, on September 20). So for older sprouts we encourage you to simply login and republish your sprout to upgrade it.
Please leave a comment if you notice the difference.
