Denver - NewsGator Technologies, the provider of a desktop RSS news feed reader, has raised $12 million in its fifth round of venture capital, led by new investor Vista Ventures.

The author of one of the greatest blogs on the Internet announced a few weeks ago that he would be posting far less often. In a world where it seems that everyone (and their mom) is starting a blog for one reason or another, seeing one prominent and popular blogger decide to do it less often captured my attention, and it should capture yours too. The blogger I'm talking about, of course, is Scott Adams - creator of Dilbert. His blog serves up his signature wit in narrative form and offers his reasoned approach to highlighting stupidity in the world, both inside and outside of the workplace.

Dulles, Va. - AOL has launched a test version of myAOL, which allows users to personalize their homepage, find customized search results and manage and import user feeds. The company said that it will continue to integrate thousands of content sources, third-party applications, widgets and social networking features into the service during the beta period.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has acquired Chicago-based FeedBurner, a provider of RSS feed distribution and management tools, for an undisclosed sum, the companies said.

Los Angeles - Rmail, a service that allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds via e-mail, announced that it has been acquired by NBC Universal.

Emeryville, Calif. - Online marketing firm Pheedo on Wednesday introduced a new platform that lets marketers use text and video RSS content to reach consumers and track their level of engagement. The FeedPowered platform places branded on-site ads that present dynamically updated text, audio or video content from any RSS feed, including YouTube feeds. From within the ad unit, consumers can subscribe to the RSS feed, e-mail a feed item or tag them on Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and other aggregators.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo on Thursday debuted a new service designed to make it easier for users and developers to create "mashups," or applications created by combining different Web-based services.

Los Angeles - The Los Angeles Times Media Group on Thursday announced the launch of My LATimes, a free, customizable RSS news feed service. My LATimes will allow readers to subscribe to a personalized feed of stories of their choosing from The Times, as well as from "a select group of online news sites recommended by Times editors -- a key differentiator from other customizable news aggregators," the company said. In connection with the launch, the company has added links that allow users to subscribe to My LATimes from every article page on its website.