The Internet Monthly: August 2012

The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 10 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 the Hadron Collider saying au revoir to Les Horribles Cernettes; London by flight with maps in the third dimension and a whole new level of getting away from it all and where to find the world’s most remote place.

You can also discover house building on-line with Lego in the land of Oz and how to have Windows XP apparently back in charge of your phone.

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 2012:

Or, download: podcast_aug12.mp3 [12’ 15”, 5.6MB]

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. SWANSONG FOR CERN SINGERS – The first photo uploaded to the web
   • www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9391110/How-the-first-photo-was-posted-on-the-Web-20-years-ago.html
   • www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzfogqcB2fA
2. MONARCHY UP WITH MEDIA TECHNOLOGY – Monarchy’s social media
   • news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16240458
3. WINDOWS XP FOR YOUR PHONE – Make your phone look like Windows
   • www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/18/xp-mod-is-a-custom-launcher-that-hearkens-back-to-a-simpler-less-modal-time
4. DOWN UNDER WITH LEGO – Build your own Lego house online
   • www.buildwithchrome.com/static/map
   • google-au.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/build-bringing-lego-bricks-to-chrome.html#!/2012/06/build-bringing-lego-bricks-to-chrome.html
5. THREE WEEKS FROM ANYWHERE – The World’s most remote place
   • www.universetoday.com/29469/where-is-the-most-remote-location-on-earth
6. 3D MAPS APPS – Aerial city views for online maps
   • www.recce.at
   • www.google.com/mobile/maps/3d
   • techcrunch.com/2012/07/13/recce-a-rich-interactive-map-thats-also-a-gaming-platform-launches-with-4m-from-nea
7. BEAUTIFUL BACKLINKS – Google Fusion Tables aide data visualisation
   • www.seerinteractive.com/blog/visualize-your-backlinks-with-google-fusion-tables
   • gephi.org/features
   • www.seomoz.org/ugc/one-more-great-way-to-use-fusion-tables-for-seo
8. AS INTEL SEES YOU – GRAPHICALLY – Your own Social media infographic
   • www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/what-about-me/what-about-me.html
9. WHAT THE WEB DOES IN 60 SECONDS – How much data in 60 seconds?
   • freepress.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-4608-2199/InternetMinuteInfographic.jpg
   • freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2012/02/24/networks-strain-to-keep-pace-with-data-explosion
10. INFOGRAPHIC SHOWS SEO SURPRISES – World wide SEO statistics
    • www.marketingtechnews.net/blog-hub/2012/jul/09/how-big-is-the-seo-industry
11. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search for infographics
    • visual.ly/search/node

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