Service Saturday: Leafletter

Techtites Daily: Service Saturday

With the Web 2.0, it is great to see new startups, each one trying to outbeat the other. The ones who benefit are us users.

Every once in a while we see a unique concept as is the case with Leafletter.

Michael Patrick wrote in to tell me about their launch. Will be extremely lazy and let his email do the talking. After all, who knows the product better than the ones behind it!

Leafletter has a five minute demo that walks you through everything you have seen above, so if you would like to skip the long amount of text below, the video is perfect.

Leafletter is a web based application which enables users to create miniature web sites (”Leaflets”) and embed them into social networks, blogs, and other web sites with ease.

A Leaflet is a miniature Flash based web site that can be displayed anywhere HTML is welcome. For instance, a Leaflet could be distributed to the About Me section of a MySpace Profile, the body of a Blog Entry, and in the Portfolio section of a photographer’s Personal Website, all simultaneously.

Leafletter is geared toward professional content creators - creative artists, media professionals, online sellers - users who seek broader exposure for their content, who probably already have a web site and/or online portfolio, and who want to begin showing their content, in a specific way, on social networks and blogs.

Leafletter is unique in that it gives the user complete control over how his media is laid out, embellished and displayed. It is created using an intuitive browser based (WYSIWYG) design tool, and features such helpful tools as Real Time Layout Changing, whereby a completed page can be viewed in 36 different configurations, Build By Blocks, whereby a user need only fill in Blocks to create a page within a Leaflet, and smooth Flickr integration for users wishing to share photos and maintain control of their presentation.

Once a Leaflet has been created it can be distributed using the familiar process of Copying and Pasting an Embed Code or URL to any location where HTML is accepted.

You can stay updated at the Leafletter blog.

Leafletter has some impressive features even though it is still a beta. It provides a quick and easy method to get out your information in a small flash file.

Two features I would like to see is the ability to download your Leafletter once is it created and the usage of the object tag instead of the embed tag, which breaks XHTML code.

I would like to see what you do with the Leafletters you create. Please do comment with the locations of the same.

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