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FeedFlare Is Open For Business
You may have noticed that the bottom of this post has a few new links, like email this post, add it to delicious, number of technorati links (when there are links), subscribe to this feed, and digg this feed.
A few of these were on my blog already, but Charlie and I had hacked them into our typepad templates.
You don't need to do template hacking anymore now that FeedBurner has launched a great new service called FeedFlare (which comes with a companion service called SiteFlare).
Here's the deal. The whole thing is built around an open API so anyone can create a flare. For example the "digg this feed" flare was not built by Digg, it was built by a guy named Ross Belmont.
FeedBurner already has over 101 suggested "flares" and more are getting built every day. Go take a look at what you can now add to your feed, your website, or your blog.
All the blogger or the website operator needs to do is put a small snippet of FeedBurner code in their template to activate SiteFlare. FeedFlare comes standard on any FeedBurner hosted feed.
Then you go into the FeedBurner configuration page, select what "flares" you want, and you are done.
Now all the website operators and bloggers can leverage the work of developers who know how to use the Flare API. It's the beginning of a new ecosystem for blog and feed metadata sharing and FeedBurner is powering it all for free.
Obviously FeedBurner benefits by making life better for their customers. And the metadata that all this generates will be valuable to the web services who participate in the "flare ecosystem". So its a win/win for everyone, the web sites and bloggers, the third party web services that can now show up on the blog and feed, and FeedBurner too.
I you want to enable more interactivity and data sharing on your websites, your blogs, and your feeds, go check out FeedFlare and SiteFlare at FeedBurner.
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Posted February 13, 2006 in Venture Capital and TechnologyComments
AWESOME - it's about time business embraced mashups
Posted by: David G | Feb 13, 2006 12:11:11 PM
This is a great feature. I'd like Feedburner to do more for larger websites in addition to individual bloggers. Feedburner needs a way to deal with feeds in bulk. We have about 100 feeds dynamically generted and there's no way to enter them all, manage them all, or get consolidated reporting. We're going to either have to enter them all manually and forget about reporting, or look for another service.
Posted by: Lee S | Feb 13, 2006 1:13:42 PM
Hey Lee, have you spoken to any of our biz dev folks about FeedFoundry? If not, drop us a line at feedback@feedburner.com. Thanks!
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Posted by: John Zeratsky | Feb 13, 2006 10:35:54 PM
This is very good news. Last time I was a programmer some 7 years ago, but even my degraded by managerial work skills were enough to write a English-to-Russian translation flare. It is already on the 101 list - so i encourage everyone to use their imagination and do some cool flares :)
Posted by: Anton Antich | Feb 14, 2006 5:33:03 AM
I've been putting off the attempt to incorporate Site flare into my blog until I was sure I was ready to commit the blog to advanced layouts in Typepad. Today was the day.
I got Site Flare to work on my main index page, but when I try to edit it into my archive pages template, it causes Typepad to crash. Neither Typepad's tech support or Feedburner's can quite figure out why this happens. I followed the instructions from feedburner quite closely and have triple checked my steps.
I see that you have it working fine. Is there any chance I could get some tips on how you did it?
Posted by: johntunger | Feb 25, 2006 12:53:03 AM
Very cool! But - is it any use to me if I'm not running my RSS feeds through Feedburner?
Posted by: Nick | Feb 25, 2006 9:10:11 PM
I finally got it working, and love it. The problem turned out to be 2 things. One was a typo on the instructions page which should be fixed soon. The other turned out to be trickier: because I followed the link to the instructions from this page, it didn't dynamically insert my feed address as it would have if I had launched the instructions from feedburner.
So just a head's up to your readers: Go to your feedburner account before launching the instructions.
The tech support people at feedburner were amazingly helpful at tracking this issue down. Major kudos to them.
Posted by: johntunger | Feb 27, 2006 10:04:30 PM
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