RSS feed publisher FeedBurner has rolled out a new option for monetizing your website. You can use FeedBurner to add Google AdSense in between posts on any blog or website. What you can’t do is the place Google AdSense advertisements in your site’s feed.

It’s a bit puzzling that the Google-owned RSS publishing company is launching a service that has nothing to do with RSS feeds. There are plenty of other ways to place AdSense ads in between posts on your blog.

FeedBurner makes the process pretty easy as long as you have “FeedFlare” on your website. All you have to do is login to your FeedBurner account, click the monetize tab, login to AdSense, and choose the type of ads you want to use. You can choose from 468 x 60 pixels or 300 x 250 pixels.

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Snap is launching a new advertising platform today based on the company’s popular Snap Shot service. Blogs and other websites using Snap Shots have a little icon next to all outgoing links on the page. Hover your mouse over the icon and you can see a preview of the destination page or media from sites like YouTube an Flickr. In other words, Snap Shots help you decide whether a link is worth clicking on.

Now Snap is launching Snap Shares a platform that will allow bloggers to monetize their sites. Basically when you hover over a Snap Shot icon, you’ll see the same image preview as before, but also some advertising at the bottom of the window.

In some ways, this is similar to the annoying pop-up advertisements you see from services like IntelliTXT. The difference is Snap Shots windows only pop up for links that a web publisher has intentionally put on the site. And Snap Shots windows show actual, useful content and not just advertising.

Snap matches ads with content by using machines and people to classify websites. Advertisers can also choose to publish ads on specific ad types like MovieShot, ProfileShot, and MapShot.

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Ever run across a website that just looks like crap on a mobile web browser? Download Squad is optimized for viewing on a small screen, but many web sites aren’t. Sure, you could spend a lot of time tweaking a site’s style sheet, but there’s an easier way.

MoFuse lets you make a mobile version of pretty much any site. The entire process basically boils down to:

1. Create an account
2. Name your site
3. Enter the RSS feed
4. Tweak if you like

In other words, it takes about a minute to create a custom, mobile version of any web site. While the service is great for web publishers (WordPress users can even add auto-redirect tags to their site so that users on mobile browsers will be sent to the MoFuse version), you can also use it to make mobile versions of websites that you don’t own. Tired of struggling to read your favorite site on your Treo? Just mobilize it.

But there’s one potential problem with that last part. MoFuse also lets you monetize mobile sites by placing AdSense or AdMob content on mobile pages. If you’re placing advertising on your own site, that’s great. But if you’re putting ads on a site registered to someone else and then publicizing and profiting from the feed? Well, that could cause some legal issues, don’t you think?

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Jott is a voice based online tool that we covered earlier this year. The basic premise is that you call a specified phone number, speak a message, and have it’s transcribed and sent as text to your account on a service like Twitter, a Wordpress blog, a Tumblr blog, or even to Yahoo Groups.

Now Jott officially supports Google Calendar. Users will now have the ability to speak into the system, specify a Google Calendar, and have Jott drop in an appointment. Great for on the go and have to set something up ASAP so you don’t forget!

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If you have Google AdSense on your web site in the hopes of making a few bucks, odds are you spend way too much of your day obsessively reading your AdSense reports. But for a company that has a robust web analytics tool, Google’s AdSense reports are a bit thin. You can find out how many people are clicking on ads and how much money you’re making, but there’s no graphs and no good way to view data that’s more than a few months old.

Fortunately, there’s a third party solution that gives you a much fuller picture of your AdSense Stats. CSV AdStats can download AdSense CSV files manually or automatically and loads them into a powerful analysis tool. Now you can get a solid picture of your earnings over time. CSV AdStats lets you separate out data from custom channels, or compare one channel with another. And best of all, unlike Google’s web tools, CSV AdStats lets you view day by day data from the time you opened your AdSense account.

The program does have a few rough edges. It appears to have been designed in French, and even if you select English as your default language, some menu items will appear in French anyway. But CSV AdStats is still incredibly useful for a free download, so we’ll let that slide.

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