The Internet Monthly: February 2011

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 how to fight back when content is stolen from your Web site, what’s new for the mobile technophile and how to delete history on your Android phone.

You can also learn about the new way to search on the Web with Qwiki’s “curated information experience”, better searching on Twitter and better advertising for UK businesses from Microsoft’s AdCenter.

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.

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The Internet Monthly – February 2011:

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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. BUSINESS UK UNDERWAY – Business website for UK entrepreneurs
   • www.business.co.uk
2. NEW VIDEO CAPTURES SUN AND SHADE – High dynamic range video
   • www.gohdr.com
   • www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/surgeons_cctv_tv
3. PC TO TV – Stream HD video wirelessly from your PC to your TV
   • uk.veebeam.com
4. GERMANY BANS GOOGLE ANALYTICS – Germany tough on Google
   • www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110111-32341.html
5. GOOGLE GROUPON – Goggle Offers, a new service to rival Groupon
   • mashable.com/2011/01/20/google-offers
6. NOT BEATING SEARCH ENGINES – SEO can’t beat the game any more
   • www.seo-theory.com/2011/01/07/why-you-cannot-reverse-engineer-googles-algorithm
7. STEALING FROM YOUR WEB SITE – Stopping copyright theft online
   • www.dellcreativestudio.com/2010/12/10/someones-stolen-my-stuff-what-to-do-when-someone-copies-your-content
8. TECHNOPHILE TRAVELLER – Gadgets to keep you connected
   • www.gizmag.com/mobile-accessories-business/17184
9. TEXT AWAY – Making notes online when away from your own PC
   • about.shrib.com
10. FILE TWITTERING– Sharing files simply via twitter
    • twileshare.com
11. INTERNET FOR BEGINNERS – Google’s Internet guide for newbies
    • www.20thingsilearned.com
12. HOW YOU VIEW – See what browser version you’re actually using
    • www.whatbrowser.org/en-gb
13. HISTORY ERASER – Delete your browsing history from your Android phone
    • www.appbrain.com/app/historyeraser/jp.androdev.historyeraser
14. APPLE’S APP STORE ALTERCATION – Apple trying to trademark “Apps”
    • www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12173224
15. APPLE PRESSED IN NEW YORK – Apple limiting magazine back editions
    • www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/business/media/17apple.html?_r=1
16. TABLET TOME TARRIES – iPad only newspaper delayed by technicalities
    • www.appleinsider.com/news_corps_the_daily_ipad_publication_delayed
    • www.appleinsider.com/apple_tells_newspapers_no_free_ipad_edition
17. SEARCH TWITTER STREAMS – A comprehensive search facility for twitter
    • snapbird.org
18. BING IN BRITAIN – Bing and Yahoo join forces in the UK
    • www.marketingweek.co.uk/disciplines/digital/to-bing?-or-not-to-bing?-that-is-the-search-marketers%E2%80%99-question/3022419.article
19. LEAST SEARCHERS MOST SATISFIED – Google gives you poorer results
    • www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/experian-hitwise-reports-bing-searches-increase
20. ‘GOOGLE FAILING’ CLAIMS – Google’s index plagued with spam
    • www.marco.org/2617546197
    • www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-house-of-google.html
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search results with a voiceover
    • www.qwiki.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.