Stumbled upon this visual explanation of the difference between marketing, PR, branding, and advertising. Whether the illustrations are 100% accurate isn’t for me to say, but I did appreciate the visual approach to defining a set of terms frequently used and commonly misused.

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch is reporting that the rumored Google/FeedBurner deal is now confirmed.

FeedBurner is immensely popular among bloggers and Google is wise to add this great service to its portfolio of products. With FeedBurner in the bag, Google now has an instant outlet for advertising in RSS feeds.

While the iPhone hasn’t been dominating the Web lately, Apple has been moving forward with getting everything in place to launch the product.

According to AppleInsider, The FCC granted approval today for the device. Full article here.

Read my previous post about the iPhone and its impact on the Web.

It’s only a rumor at this point but it’s being reported that Google is buying FeedBurner.

FeedBurner is a great service for bloggers and others who create content they want delivered via RSS feeds. FeedBurner manages the subscriptions for the RSS feed and provides a lot of valuable statistics about feed readership, etc.

FeedBurner also allows advertisers to insert ads into RSS feeds, which explains Google’s alleged intent to acquire them. Getting ads into feeds is critical because many subscribers to a feed may not actually visit the website but read the articles via a feed reader like Google Reader instead.

It is, at this point, just a rumor however. We’ll see if it plays out.