Check out my link directory. It should be completely up in a few days. It’s a free directory but feel free to run a reciprocal link on your site. Featured links are $5/per year!

Online search leader Google said on Friday it purchased FeedBurner, which helps bloggers and podcasters syndicate and make money from their online content, for an undisclosed sum.

Chicago-based FeedBurner “delivers feeds to millions of users around the world and offers unique and useful tools for publishers to analyze, optimize, and monetize their content,” wrote Susan Wojcicki, Google’s vice president of product management, in announcing the deal on Google’s official blog.

FeedBurner also offers a tool for pushing ads through feeds, generating advertising revenue.

According to some reports Google was to pay $US100 million for FeedBurner, which was launched in 2004.

Source: SMH

Every wondered what those expressions mean that we give off with our eyes? Well they mean a lot, no matter how much we try and suppress.

To see what the above diagram means, visit this article on eye expressions at Design Prophet.

Ok, lets say I just told somebody at a party (what a geeky party) about this cool site called Wikipedia. They go home, and settle down at the PC and type in Wikipedia.com, right? Right. We have come to realise, how ever unconsciously that .com is a generic top-level domain. This testifies the value of using a .com rather than a .org, .info (etc) domain. For more information on this topic, see this website on .com domains.

Obvious other types of domains have their place. For instance, geographical domains play their part at both a functional and conscious level. Here in Australia, if I give out my BigPond email address which ends in .com most people are adamant that I mean .com.au. I am unsure how people react to .us, .co.uk and .ca.

I feel that geographical domains are more significant at an offline level. From what I observe, people that source a domain offline are likely to think of its geographical orientation. Whereas online, standard .com plays a greater role.

Buying domain names is one thing but buying websites is a handful. In a previous post, I mentioned that I bought Directory-Tree which is a neat little link directory. Well, trying to transfer the domain name was a piece of cake. But transferring the site and the PHPLD script is a pain in the neck. What more, the previous owner is on a different time-zone and hasn’t got regular connection to the internet.

Fingers crossed that I have it transfered over the weekend. The site is down at the moment because of the transfer which concerns me. However, Trampola went down back in May for a few days and that didn’t cause too much trouble.

Again, fingers crossed.

Pajago

James Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL) has sold a further 25 per cent stake in PBL Media Holdings - which owns the Nine Network and magazine businesses - to its joint venture partner, CVC, for $515 million.

Read more at SMH.