Sprout - New WYSIWYG editor for flash

Sprout is a new online application designed to make the process of creating, publishing and tracking flash based widgets an easy experience. You don’t have to be a developer to get started. It’s meant to be a simple tool for designers. Sprout is now in private beta and should be publicly available within the next few weeks.

I have tested the tool and quickly made this simple slide-show widget:

Sprout has partnered up with Clearspring, Gigya, and SpringWidgets to provide both easy distribution and tracking/analytics. Sprout creators can track the usage of not only entire sprouts but the elements, such as buttons, within those sprouts. They can also use the application to make changes to sprouts that have already been distributed across the web.

Pretty cool!