Flaremaker.com - Comprehensive Feed Management

There are plenty of tools out there to help you manage your feeds. Needless to say, it can be difficult to pin down the correct service for your needs considering the over-saturated market. Luckily, there are some feed management applications out there that let you do more than just organize and tweak your feeds, and therefore cater to more specific user requirements. One such site is Flaremaker, which is a essentially a one-stop shop for feed creation, management, and display. The biggest difference with Flaremaker is that the site is organized into three different sections depending on your familiarity with feeds and with Flaremaker itself. If you’re a beginning feed user, Flaremaker walks you through the basics of feed and how they can be used. When you’ve finished reading the basic tutorial, you move onto the next section and learn what Flaremaker can do for your feeds. It’s in this section that Flaremaker’s services are detailed; you can input feeds from scratch, a feed item, or an imported external feed or feed item. At this point, Flaremaker provides you with the tools necessary to display your feeds (there are three different layout options), and follow your statistics (number of hits, linking information, etc). Flaremaker also lets you specify a date on which you want your feed(s) and feed items to become active, allowing you to coordinate with release of external content. The last section of Flaremaker is for “experts” or those who have become familiar with Flaremaker through reading the previous two sections, and guide you through the sign up and pricing process (depending on your needs, there are several differently priced packages).

“Flaremaker is an all-in-one Feed Tool. It allows users to create, manage, and display Feeds, as well as monitor their Feed and Feed Item statistics. Users can also import existing Feeds and Feed Items into Flaremaker.”

Flaremaker is one of the more complete feed management tools out there, not only because of the thorough and clear delineation of its services and how to use them, but also because it lets its users take advantage of so many different display, organization, input, and analysis options, which normally may only be available across several feed sites instead of just one.

The only real problem with Flaremaker seems to be that it hasn’t really caught on; what is the site doing about publicity and/or advertising?