If you don’t know already Google acquired FeedBurner a few weeks ago and since Google has bucket loads of money already, they have made the entire pro FeedBurner feature set, FREE!

FeedBurner Stats PRO
PRO is feed analytics taken to the next level. You will now have access to the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. You can turn this on by signing in to your account, navigating to the Analyze tab and heading to the FeedBurner Stats PRO section. Click the “Item Views” checkbox to activate these PRO features.

MyBrand
The MyBrand service (also PRO-level) is located under the “My Account” tab after you’ve signed in. MyBrand lets you maintain consistency between your feed address and your hosted website’s domain, if matchy-matchy is your thing. For example, rather than using feeds.feedburner.com/MyFeedName, your MyBrand-ed feed address can be feeds.myexcellentdomain.net/MyFeedName. To get started with MyBrand, sign into FeedBurner, click the “My Account” link in the upper left-hand corner, and then click “MyBrand”. Nota Bene: You must be comfortable playing around with DNS entries and own the rights to the domain whose DNS entries you’ll be playing around with in order to successfully activate MyBrand.

I think this will successfully crush many other competitors to FeedBurner out there, giving Google once again a dominating market share.

Want to win yourself a Samsung 26″ LCD HDTV valued at $999.99? Of course you do! Entering into our competition is simple, we’ve just launched and we’re trying to build up our Business and Marketing forums, so to enter, jump on over to our forum, register and make at least 3 posts and you’re in the running for this awesome prize.

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Competition ends, Sunday 15^th of July so get in quick.

We’ll be trying to build our forum over the next few months, so there’ll be many more of these great competitions.

What you could win

A Samsung LNT2653H 26″ LCD HDTV direct from Amazon.com

Retail value of $999.99

• 5000:1 Contrast Ratio
• (2) HDMI, (2) Component Inputs
• PC Input
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Well it looks as if Google has acquired GrandCentral, if you don’t know what GrandCentral is already I’m sure you’ll find out after Google launch their new phone they are so tight lipped about.

That’s my opinion anyway, I think the only reason Google has acquired them, and soon to be more mobile based services is to start building a market share in the mobile arena so when they launch their phone they’ll have an instant client base.

Here’s what GrandCentral Does

GrandCentral doesn’t replace your phones; we just link them together and help them do more. How do we do that? We give people One Number…for LifeTM - a number that’s not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to you.

With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.

• Check your messages by phone, email, or online
• Keep all your messages online for eternity
• Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
• Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
• Click-to-dial from your address book
• Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
• Forward, download, and add notes to your messages

The acquisition was for a rumored $50m, chump change for Google. I think you’ll find this new acquisition will start to integrate with Googles 1-800-GOOG-411 service where you can search for businesses via voice and get connected to them for free, and also get a map of any location you want messaged to your phone.

According to popular belief and some research, these are the top 10 social bookmarking sites at the moment according to eBizMBA, they have a whole top 25 largest social bookmarking sites list for last month.

I honestly don’t know how Netscape is still around or even that popular; to me they died many, many years ago.

MyBlogLog in my opinion will continue to grow for a while yet and I wouldn’t be surprised if digg started to decline in the next 6 months. Or get bought out by Google for some reason.

Have you heard of this yet? Blogging to Fame?

You might have but it’s news to me!

They are offering $100,000 in cash prizes to the highest rated blogs and bloggers around. You can register for an account and vote on a maximum of 3 blogs that you like.

There are preliminary selections and live ratings…

Award for blogs

1 Most Famed Blog Would Receive

• $25,000 in cash
• Blogging to Fame Gold Trophy
• Pass to attend the Seminar and award ceremony
• To and Fro Travel Tickets from Hometown to Chicago and Back
• Hotel Reservations for Four Days, Three Nights
• Blog Launching and Consultancy be an A-List Blogger

3 Most Famed Blog Would Receive

• $10,000 in cash
• Blogging to Fame Gold Trophy
• Pass to attend the Seminar and award ceremony
• To and Fro Travel Tickets from Hometown to Chicago and Back
• Hotel Reservations for Four Days, Three Nights
• Blog Launching and Consultancy be an A-List Blogger

Award for bloggers

5 Most Famed Bloggers Would Recieve:

• $5,000 in cash
• Blogging to Fame Silver Trophy
• Passes to attend the Seminar and award ceremony
• To and Fro Travel Tickets from Hometown to Chicago and back
• Hotel Reservation for Four Days, Three Nights

Blog Launching and Consultancy be an A-List Blogger

Came across this today when typing in random URLs into text-link-ads link calculator, there’s a picture of Bill Gates when you enter the URL msn.com

http://www.text-link-ads.com/link_calculator.php

Did you know you could do that? From Word 2007 when you write a new document you have the option of writing a typical word doc, or you can write a blog post.

If you choose to write a blog post you actually get a different interface dedicated to blogging. From this interface you can do all your typical Word things like, editing fonts, add images, tables, shapes, diagrams, etc… But you get the advantage that once you’re done you can publish your post live or publish as a draft. Oh and not to mention that the Wordpress writing editor is average anyway!

It’s actually extremely handy; I write all my posts in Word as it is now anyway, it weeds out all my spelling errors and help with grammar. But now I can just drop and drag images in, I can create diagrams and shapes, I can even specify what categories I want the post in and it’ll upload everything, images and all in one quick hit.

80% of the time I publish draft posts only because I like to go into Wordpress and do my post tweaking, add keywords, make it feature, do all the little things that my Wordpress plug-ins are there for, after those small things are done I then post it live or I schedule it for the future.

I love it, I can just sit here in Word, write a whole bunch of posts as drafts direct to Wordpress without logging in and knowing that they will look good and the images are uploaded perfectly!

I know there’s other applications out there that manage blogs and blog posts for you that you can write posts in and all that, but end of the day I do heaps of writing in Word as it is, I practically live in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Excel, Word and Visio.

I came across this auction today on digital point, it’s a site that’s being auction off for $9,000 based on the site earning around $40 a day…

Problem is that the money is being made from Google Adsense ads, and the ads are against the Google TOS.

So many people are selling dodgy sites with dodgy advertising on it, making quick money and selling the sites before Google shut down their advertising revenue.

The guy says he can easily change the parts that are against the Google TOS, but if he does, then he’s not going to be making $40 a day anymore, his headings and text are for loans, a high paying keyword, if he removes it and puts in relevant content, file uploading, then he’ll drop to probably $5 a day. Maybe more, maybe less, regardless if Google catches on at anytime, they’ll shut the account down all together and ban the site.

Here’s my quick list of rules that have been broken

• May not direct user attention to the ads via arrows or other graphical gimmicks
• May not place misleading images alongside individual ads
• Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
• Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site’s search engine ranking, e.g., your site’s PageRank
• No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.

Those are from Google’s Adsense Program Policies.

There are further guidelines that Google recommends webmasters follow in order not to be de-indexed from Google, and this site clearly is outside those guidelines.

Is it really worth having your account shut down over $40 a day?