Google, the new owner of Feedburner, announced that two previously for-pay services are now completely free. These services are MyBrand and FeedBurner Stats PRO.

MyBrand lets you use your own domain name as the feed URL. Instead of a URL that looks something like http://feeds.feedburner.com/web2zero, it’s now completely possible to have a URL like http://www.web2zero.net/feed without giving up the valuable information that FeedBurner provides.

The second feature that is now free is the FeedBurner Stats Pro service. Here is how they describe the service on their blog:

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.

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Created in 2004, Feedburner allows blog users to create and publish RSS feeds. FeedBurner has millions of readers every day. Google can now insert their adds in blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds.

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The 1 millionth blog has been created this week on Wordpress.com. Launched 4 years ago, Wordpress is now the 4th most popular blog platform after Blogger, SixApart and MySpace.

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The one year old french startup Vpod.tv has launched a new feature called myTV that allows users to create their own Internet TV chanel. Vpod.tv looks like a mix between Joost and YouTube.
Users can upload their own videos directly through an application installed on their computer directly into their Vpot account. They can create playlist, RSS feeds. They can then personalize the player by linking it to their own domain name and adding their own logo, and syndicate it through a Netvibes widget.

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TechCrunch has been offering Joost invites on its forum for a while. Now they have set up a page on the Joost website to allow people to get invite easier.

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