We’ve had a good run of press coverage over the past couple of weeks.  Here are some of the greatest hits.  Two TV clips and two podcasts.  Enjoy!

ABC News

CNBC

Small Business Advocate Podcast

BusinessWeek Smart Answers Podcast

Establish a Web Presence - Yola’s Randy Almond on why it matters

I’m excited to announce that Yola’s been selected as one of Business Week’s Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know.

There are a lot of promising companies on the list.  We’re thrilled to be part of it.

Emmy Bill, part of our superstar community support team, gave this Yola video demo to the guys at InformationWeek at the Web 2.0 Conference in early April in San Francisco .

Nice job Emmy!

Many of you have told us you’re interested in making it easier for visitors to find your site, and that you’d like your site to feel professional.  You can achieve both of these goals with your personal web address, also known as a custom domain.

I’m excited to let you know that we’ve expanded our domains product offering so you can more easily find a name for your site, get names with extensions other than .com, and secure your website address for years to come.

• Find a website name: Sometimes the first name that comes to mind isn’t available.  To make it easier to come up with another one you like, we’ll show you a list of available options.

• End with more than .com: You can now register domains with .net, .org, .biz, and, of course, .com extensions.  And we’ll automatically configure the domains for you.

• Get multiple domains: You can assign more than one domain name to your site, which will all redirect users to your primary site.  This can also help visitors find you and improve search engine ranking.

• Lock in your domains: To ensure you keep your web site name for years to come, you can register your domain for up to 10 years.  By doing so, you’ll save up to 20% and save yourself the hassle of renewing every year.

• Keep your registration private: When you own a domain name, your contact details are publicly disclosed via the WHOIS database, which can result in unwanted emails.  With private registration, we place alternate information in the public database — so only relevant messages are forwarded and your junk email is reduced.

To take advantage of these new options, select “Buy my own domain name” when you first publish your site or “Upgrade to your own domain” when you update your existing site.

Enjoy!

SynthaSite has won the Industry Standard 100 award in the Community & Social category, beating companies like Delicious and Meebo.

Thank you to everyone for their votes!

We are proud to announce that SynthaSite is a finalist in the Industry Standard Innovation 100 awards!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us.

There will be one “winner” per category based on the most community votes in each category, so you have another opportunity to show your love for SynthaSite. We need your help, so Vote Now!

I’m in Las Vegas at the moment, having just gone to the TechCrunch40 conference in San Francisco to demo Synthasite in the Demopit. What a day! I was running demos on my feed for 10 hours straight - it was painful! For those of you who were there, you were lucky enough to get a glimpse of the Pre-Beta preview that we had prepared. For those of you who weren’t, I’m glad to be able to offer you a video interview, below, courtesy of Shoemoney.com. I hope you will get excited to get a taste of what’s coming out in the Beta.

If you want to keep up to date with all the media coverage, a comprehensive list is being assembled here.