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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 issue you can find out about grants for YouTube video makers and cash to get broadband into rural Wales and learn about protection from the latest scams and stings.

You can also learn about the right and wrong ways to drum up business using social media and the brand and company name sleuth that checks Facebook, Twitter, MySpace as well as still-free domains.

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 – August 2010:

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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. SUPPORT CALL STING – Support desk virus scam
   • www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/359233/the-unstoppable-tech-support-scam
2. COUNTER MEASURES – Romance fraud on the rise
   • www.actionfraud.org.uk
   • countermeasures.trendmicro.eu
3. WHEN OPTING OUT IS NOT AN OPTION – Read carefully before accepting
   • chiefofficers.net/888333888/cms/index.php/news/management
4. SUSPENDED WITHOUT TRIAL – Cloud computing’s downside
   • venturebeat.com/2010/06/21/blocked-how-yahoo-shut-us-down-and-why-it-could-happen-to-you
5. PENALTY SHOOT-OUT – Google under investigation for penalising its rivals
   • www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=456894
   • www.searchneutrality.org/foundem-google-story
   • www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/google_hand_of_god
6. GROCERY FLOAT – Amazon starts selling groceries online
   • www.amazon.co.uk/Grocery-Breakfast-Foods-Organic-Snacks/b/ref=topnav_storetab_grocery?ie=UTF8&node=340834031
7. KRAFT BRANDS GO SOCIAL – Kraft food corporation adopts social media
   • mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/food-brands-get-sociable-on-facebook-and-twitter
8. FARMING ON FACEBOOK – Networking more like farming than hunting
   • www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7842135/Networking-guru-Dr-Ivan-Misner-warns-of-tapping-up-on-Facebook-and-Twitter.html
9. DIG THAT NAME – Check if your brand name is available online
   • www.ud.com
10. SOCIALISING BEATS SEARCHING – Social networks beat search engines
    • weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2010/06/social_networks_overtake_search_engines.html
    • blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/here_we_go_again.php
11. THE BUZZ ABOUT ME – Goggle to launch social networking site?
    • www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jun/30/guardian-activate-summit-2010-liveblog
    • social.venturebeat.com/2010/07/01/google-researcher-says-friend-groups-may-give-it-a-window-to-best-facebook/
12. PAGE PRICING – How much is your Facebook page worth?
    • evaluator.vitrue.com
13. FACEBOOK’S FORGOTTEN SHAREHOLDER – Facebook’s other owner?
    • www.wellsvilledaily.com/news/x1609360879/Does-Wellsville-man-own-Facebook
14. PRESS PASS – Google’s micro payment system for online newspapers
    • paidcontent.org/article/419-google-reportedly-launching-a-paid-content-system-for-italian-publisher
    • translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=it%7Cen&u=http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/06/17/news/google_pay-4932905
15. THOMSON TO BOOST BING – ThomsonLocal.com to resell Bing advertising
    • www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/988706/Microsoft-debuts-UK-ad-campaign-Bing
16. BROADBAND FOR YSTRAD MEURIG – Cash incentive for Welsh broadband
    • www.bbc.co.uk/news/10490147
    • www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10644030
17. GRANTS FOR VIDEO MAKERS – YouTube cash grants for video makers
    • adage.com/digital/article?article_id=144856
18. YOUTUBE EDITING – Online video editor trial
    • www.youtube.com/testtube
19. TWEAKING YOUTUBE – Get the most out of your YouTube videos
    • www.pcworld.com/article/199977/make_youtube_jump_through_hoops.html?tk=nl_sbx_t_cbintro
20. VIDEO CHAT SIMPLIFIED – Browser based video conferencing
    • www.chatride.com
21. KEEPING FRESH – The latest on Google’s caffeine injection
    • news.techworld.com/applications/3226238/google-search-adds-caffeine-results-update
    • www.communicatebetter.org/2009/12/29/2010-seo-secret-how-to-skyrocket-to-the-top-of-google-caffeine-results
    • www.zenwebsolutions.com/content-management.html
22. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Timely and relevant searching
    • www.nowrelevant.com
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqL_iig-6oA

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