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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s podcast, you can find out about the next generation of Super Fast Broadband that’s due out soon, a whole set of new top level domain names, a revolutionary business search engine from the Financial Times and another from British physicist Stephen Wolfram.

There’s news about a free trial of a new PPC sponsored search advertising service, a copywriting quiz for anyone with a Web site that has something to sell, a free online collaborative whiteboard, how to get answers from politicians online and the latest on Internet TV in your living room.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – April 2009:

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This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. ZEN INTERNET AWARD – Zen Internet voted best buy broadband by Which? magazine
   • uk.webhostdir.com/news/showNews.aspx?ID=31291 
2. TODAY IN HISTORY – Happy Birthday to Apple and Gmail on 1st April 
   • www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_April_1.php 
3. WHERE WERE YOU IN 1996? – Not doing much web surfing apparently 
   • slate.com/id/2212108
4. NO APRIL FOOL – The Web is now 20 years old
   • www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/
5. MANY TIMES FASTER BROADBAND – Ericsson reveals new super fast broadband technology 
   • news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39628886,00.htm
6. DOMAIN NAMES EXPAND – Generic top level domains to be made available
   • blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14051 
7. FOCUS BEFORE YOU SEARCH – Beta version of a configurable business search engine for the Financial Times
   • www.newssift.com
8. WHAT ARE THEY UP TO NOW? – Online British interview magazine
   • www.yoosk.com
9. PEOPLE FINDER – A people search engine expands its geographical coverage 
   • www.123people.com
10. JOBSWORTH – Criminals using cloned career histories from social networking Web sites
    • www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/4963833/Criminals-target-websites-to-copy-CVs.html
11. PERSONAL FILES – What Google knows about you
    • www.criminaljusticeusa.com/blog/2009/25-surprising-things-that-google-knows-about-you/
12. CROSSING THE POND – Brit to run Google’s American advertising division
    • business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/
13. HOW I SUED GOOGLE AND WON – A final resort with a happy outcome
    • www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-google-and-won_b_172403.html
14. NATURAL SEARCH – A search engine that actually understands your questions
    • www.cio-today.com/news/Search-Engine-Uses-Natural-Language/story.xhtml?story_id=021001XHDW3R&full_skip=1
    • www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1160667/Revolutionary-British-search-engine-important-Google.html
    • blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/
15. PPC WITHOUT THE PAY – The UK’s newest search engine
    • www.oparla.com
16. MARX AND PPC – Do the theories of Karl Marx predict the downfall of PPC?
    • www.imediaconnection.com/content/22136.asp
17. AVOID SPENDING IN A VOID – Are you wasting your internet marketing spend?
    • www.alterian.com/news__events/press_releases/2009/
    • www.zenwebsolutions.com/news/why-your-website-visitors-are-leaving.html
18. COPYISTS QUIZ – Test your copywriting skills
    • www.grokdotcom.com/2009/03/09/how-persuasive-is-your-online-copywriting-quiz/
19. ONLINE WHITEBOARD – Share your doodlings online with friends and colleagues
    • www.dabbleboard.com/tour
20. KANGAROO SKIPS FORWARD – Web TV from the BBC and ITV
    • www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open_consultations/canvas.html
    • www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/
    • blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ian_douglas/blog/
    • www.zen.co.uk/about/newsletter-archive.aspx?issue=94
21. CATCH-UP TV ONLINE – How to catch up with TV that you missed
    • www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/demtv2
22. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – A new business-centric search engine
    • biznar.com

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.