About Feed.Us
Feed.Us (pronounced "Feed Us") is a "content management platform". We create content publishing & management applications that install on websites via embed code. Content is "fed" to websites via our web service and works on any platform.
Feed.Us is owned by Great States Software, LLC. We are a small team located in Chicago, Milwaukee, and New Jersey.
Background:
Feed.Us is mainly Rick Stratton, John Welborn and Cliff Gray. But we've had a lot of help: Brian Timpone, Jason Habbley, Cliff Gray, Diana Maldonado, Phil Plencner, John Kissmatis and the guys from New Leaders.
This all began in 1998 during the first "dotcom boom". We all worked together at Guitar.com/ePrairie.com/Epigraph.com and created a CMS that ran our community websites.
In 2001, after the "dotcom bust", we started a web development firm called 1871 Media. 1871 created publishing and ecommerce apps and designed websites for newspapers and community groups. In 2007, we sold 1871 Media to Manifest Digital.
That sale gave us the opportunity to build the content platform that we had dreamed about. We could have (should have?) started some sort of social network for dog owners. But content publishing has always been our passion and Feed.Us became our focus.
Our goal with Feed.Us? A CMS that's easy to use and incredibly simple to install with built-in ways to spread that content across a network or outside sites.
And in July, 2009 we launched Feed.Us. Now our goal is to help you with your publishing products. Contact us today and let us know how we can help.
- Rick Stratton, Founder
FeedUs Team
Rick Stratton:
Rick Stratton has co-founded three companies: 1871 Media, ePrairie.com and Great States Software. He was President of 1871 Media from launch (2001) till sale in May of 2007 to Manifest Digital.
Rick has a B.A. in History from Connecticut College and a background in design. He has created web publishing applications since 1998. At Outboard Marine, ePrairie, and 1871 Media, Rick designed and managed the production of numerous web and email publishing applications for non-techies.
He lives in Milwaukee with his wife, son and pet menagerie. His blog is Tachophobia.com. From 1998 to 2001, he pretended to be a professional racecar driver (career winnings $1200).
John Welborn:
John Welborn is an alumni of the prestigious University of Illinois Computer Science department and has been surrounded by computers since 4.77mhz and two 5 1/4" floppy drives were state of the art and laptops weighed 28lbs.
John spent three years at Intel in the Enterprise Operations division managing thousands of servers and developing support applications. In 1999, John lead the developers of the Musician.com network (Musician.com, Guitar.com, and gBase.com) eventually becoming CTO.
With a focus on supporting the community, Guitar.com and Musician.com paved the way to web 2.0 with discussion boards and chat combined with celebrity video lessons and the web's greatest musician finder. He and his team pioneered the creation / implementation of some of the Web's first caching systems and have written and designed dozens of web applications.
He deftly handles vocal and rhythm guitar duties in the progressive metal band Empyrean Sky while living outside Chicago with his wife, son and dogs.
Feed.Us loves Zaca Tacos:
More information:
You can read more about us via our Blog or subscribe to our RSS feed. CMS Wire interviewed Rick Stratton in February of 2008 and CMS Critic profiled Feed.Us in March of 2009. Email Rick Stratton: rick at feed dot us. We are more than happy to setup a demo for anyone who is interested.