Social websites have become the predominant online destination for users over the last few years. Users, in particular younger users, are spending more time on these sites. They are also getting their content through new content aggregation technologies such as Widgets and Gadgets.

Alexa global traffic ranks of top 10 sites in 2005 and 2008

It is important for brands and content owners to be able to connect with their users across these new channels and media. Skava can help by providing applications and rich user experiences that can be seamlessly shared across social sites and other distribution channels.

The Skava ONE platform supports the following social and widget channels and provides an integrated experience with these platforms by using platform specific APIs-

  • Facebook
  • MySpace
  • Orkut, Hi5 and other OpenSocial compliant sites
  • Yahoo Widgets
  • iGoogle
  • More channels coming soon...

The Skava platform also supports sharing the content through the following means-

  • Share by Email
  • Send to Phone
  • Post on social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Technorati etc.
  • Blog

The Skava platforms also encourages user interaction by providing the following features-

  • Ratings and Comments
  • Posting content through web upload
  • Posting images through Camera Phones
  • Sharing with friends through Facebook and OpenSocial APIs
  • Taking part in interactive custom features

All these features are made available for all content being published using the Skava platform. Please explore the @fingertips platform section for more details on our technology.

The Skava platform can be used by retailers to publish shopping catalogs, by publishers to provide online comic/book reader application to users, and by any kind of digital content provider who wants to reach out to consumers on these different channels.