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Widgets & Video Players

The KickApps App Studio is a WYSIWYG interface that lets you build completely customized widgets and video players with point-and-click ease. Using simple components like video screens, audio players, RSS renderers, text fields, and buttons, you can assemble, style, and program dynamic, data-driven Flash widgets.

Widgets can be syndicated to Facebook, MySpace, and any other site that accepts HTML embeds. Tracking is available via Google Analytics and Omniture. You can monetize your video players with an assortment of ad components, including DoubleClick, Atlas, 24/7 OAS, adap.tv, ScanScout, and Google.

RSS Feed API (Search)

The KickApps RSS Feed API allows you to search all of your sites's data (members, media, message board posts, groups, etc.), and sort and filter the results using a variety of parameters. For example you could create a list of the 50 most popular videos that have been uploaded to your site and tagged with "nature", or the 10 female site members with the most comments on their profile.

You can also generate "Activity Feeds," which produce a list of recent activity for the entire site, a specific group within the site, a specific member within the site, or a specific member's friends within the site.

Code Snippets

Our Code Snippets section contains a variety of JavaScript, CSS and HTML code snippets that you can use on your KickApps-hosted pages to further customize the user experience. For example you can change the size of the profile photo on each user's profile page.

REST API Developer Kit

Want to add logins, comments, and ratings to your editorial content, stories, and other pages that aren't hosted by KickApps? Want to build a mobile application on top of the data inside the KickApps system?

The KickApps API Developer Kit enables your development team to access your site's data on a self-service basis and display it in applications, feeds, or any other programmable format. With it, you can also add data into your site to recreate and customize features such as media comments, ratings, and more.

SSO Plug-in Reference

Single Sign-On enables you to create a seamless login experience between your KickApps-powered site and your existing website’s member registration system. If you’re running a Drupal, Joomla!, or WordPress-powered website, we’ve developed SSO plug-ins and modules that you can install on your servers. With SSO, when your members login to your website, they'll be automatically signed into your KickApps-powered site. If you're adding KickApps to a site that already has members, these members will be automatically registered into your KickApps site when they sign in to your main site.