clearspring - the widget network.

Ok, so you have a website and some content, how do you expose it so that users can take it with them across the web? Clearspring can help you answer this in a few different ways.

Share anything with Launchpad On-Page

Launchpad On-Page can help you take any piece of content you want, and let visitors to your site share it to any destination on the web. You don't need to do anything to the content, and you don't even need to do anything with Clearspring other than create an account.

The basic process goes like this:

1. Register with Clearspring, or log in if you already have an account
2. Click Add Widget then click My web page to get started with Launchpad On-Page (or just go here).
3. Give your menu a name, choose a basic type and color scheme for your Launchpad On-Page menu and click the Generate Code button
   
4. Grab the JavaScript code, stick it in your Web page, and simply point it to the content you want to share
5. Now any visitor to this Web page will be able to use an interactive menu to share the content to anywhere on the Web, and you'll be able to see exactly what they are doing!

You can get step-by-step instructions on how to get the Launchpad On-Page code in our Quick Start, or read all about the details of the JavaScript configuration APU in our Launchpad On-Page API documentation.

Register some modular content as a widget using Launchpad In-Widget

Do you have some content that is set up to be modular? Like a Web page, a Flash movie, or even just an image, that would work well off of your site? If so, you can register it with the Clearspring platform as a widget. There are a bunch of benefits to doing this:

• You can get detailed tracking information on where and how your Web page, Flash, or image code is spreading across the Web
• You can use Clearspring to manage your widget's configuration for you, giving you a dynamic, scalable configuration system for your complex modular application
• Your widget will run just about anywhere
• With Launchpad In-Widget your widget will get a sharing menu built right in, so users can grab it for themselves and spread it virally across the web
• You can still use the great Launchpad On-Page menu to share your widget from your own site

To register your widget with Clearspring, just take a look at the Launchpad In-Widget section of the Quick Start guide, it takes about 5 minutes.

Make it small, fast, and viral

If you don't already have something that you think would make a good widget, don't fret. Almost anything that is small, fast, and viral makes a good candidate.Using  a powerful platform like Clearspring means you don't have to do a lot of custom development. All you really need to do is take some of your existing content or application inventory and set it up so that it can display in a small area, then just give us a URL or the actual content, using one of the two  options discussed above, and we'll do the rest!