KickApps is a powerful Social/Web 2.0 platform you can install on a website. It invites users to upload picks, add RSS pheeds, create content and more.
KickApps is a hosted platform (SaaS) that provides a range of social media applications to website developers and publishers that accelerate deployment of more sophisticated and costly applications such as social networking, user-generated content, media management and sharing, profiles, programmable video players, webcam applications and widgets.A SaaS platform allows websites to deploy a wide range of user experiences in a variety of ways: REST and SOAP APIs, feeds, programmable widgets and video players, customizable templates and single-sign services.
Members select a username and password (or use their existing site ID) to join your social network
Members can upload videos, photos, and audio
Member profiles contain standard social networking features, including: blogs (video, audio, and plain text), RSS feeds, guest books, friends, multi-media message boards, widgets and groups
Includes online media management, member management, reporting and advertising administration
KickApps is often compared with Brightcove[4], Flux[5] and Ning. [6]
KickApps is great for our purposes, as it not only exports RSS pheeds, it
also let's you import RSS pheeds. This is huge for us! When creating your
site, look for and pay special attention to these related RSS features, they
will come in handy later.
Because of the power of these sites, take extra care with them. You want these sites to last, so make good content.
Each link below should take you to the sign up page for each site. You can use Link Selection and Autofill Forms (see Firefox Plugins) along with Multi-Clipboard to greatly speed up the process.
However, I suggest you use Link Selection first to open 10-15 links below in frames and go through and be selective. Try to find a few sites that look like good matches for your niche. Unlike other products, we're not trying to spam these sites, we're looking to use the to build some good real estate.
Sign up for the sites that are a good fit. Be sure to refer to your Organization check list.
For Kickapps, it's best to also check to see if they have "blogs" installed. These are better.
Get started:
Using Firefox and Link Selection, click and drag about 10-15 links below.
Right click => Select "Selection Open" This will open these links in different tabs.
Go from tab to tab and check out the sites.
Once you find a site you like, fill out the info using Autofill Forms.
Save the profile as "Kickapps".
In Autofill Forms go to => Settings => Rule Editor => Click OK.
Check that the site rule form is:
(?:^http:\/\/)|(?:^https:\/\/)
Open the next tab. Use Autofill Forms to fill out all the basic info.
I suggest you change your image each time, using an image you made for your Prep. (You did do your prep, right?)
Note: You will need to enter captchas each time.
Check into your email account and verify the Kickapps accounts.
You may want to wait a bit until the "heat" from new accounts dies off...But if you are adding real content and building a real site, you should be good to go.
Don't go hard-core on the SEO. Instead, point your links to one of your Camouflage Pages. Each time you create an account using Kickapps, use another Camouflage Page.
Also, use "Sacrificial Links" from the Advanced Linking article. These also act as camouflage. As you come back to your Kickapps pages, Instead of filling out 10 links that all obviously point to you, add some Sacrificial links. And NEVER cross-link two profiles of the same type.
WARNING: The programmers of Kickapps are upset with spammers. Even though it speeds things up to use the same user name, you may want to use different user names for each site. These can be checked publicly. I wouldn't worry about email and passwords, as they would probably have a privacy issue on their hands.
KickApps Raw Links (To find more targeted KickApps sites, use the [keywords] search link in the left frame).
Important note: Don't start at the very top. I have randomized the order of these links, so there's no benefit of being at the top, middle or end. By each of you choosing a random starting place, we are less likely to hit the same sites all at once.
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