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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, the first issue of the New Year, the 40th birthday of the mouse is celebrated and we contemplate the middle age of the Internet as it grows by one zettabyte a year.

There’s news of a new Internet domain that aims to become the online equivalent of the phone book, a free alternative to satellite that lets you watch TV channels via your PC browser, a follow-up to Google Answers that pays you to reply to questions, and a valuation tool that estimates how much you could get by selling your web site.

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 – January 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. CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS – Professional networks beat the recession
   • www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AP07T20081126
2. JANUARY SALES – What technology to buy or avoid
   • www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335211,00.asp
3. MOUSE TURNS 40 – Is a mid-life crisis looming for the mouse?
   • news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7751627.stm
4. HISTORY CHANNEL – A brief history of the internet
   • crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49299033-1,00.htm
5. GROWING THE NET – Is the net growing out of control?
   • resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/video/0,1000002009,39568103,00.htm
6. DOT TEL – A new top level domain arrives to replace phone books
   • blogs.ft.com/techblog/2008/09/telnic-talks-up-new-tel-top-level-domain/
7. CUTTING EDGE DEALS – Google challenged over net neutrality 
   • finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-says-it-still-stands-apf-13833712.html
8. FREE TUBE – Free TV direct to your PC
   • freetube.110mb.com
9. FREE RADIO – Thousands of free radio stations at your fingertips
   • www.radiobeta.com
10. WHAT’S YOUR WEB SITE WORTH? – Got a website? Thinking of selling it? Then this site may help put a value on it.
    • www.WebValuer.org
11. MAIL BONDING – Yahoo reinventing e-mail
    • arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081215-yahoo-begins-rolling-out-social-extensible-e-mail-inbox.html
12. EYEJOT – A web based service to send video e-mails from your webcam 
    • www.eyejot.com/experience.html
13. CLASS ACTION – Collaborative editing of videos and online lectures 
    • www.yovisto.com
14. WIKIPEDIA.ORG – Can Wikipedia capitalise on it’s success? 
    • www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-culture/what-s-the-deal-with-wikipedia
15. FLORAL DANCE – Using trademarked keywords lands top retailer in trouble 
    • www.out-law.com/page-9638
16. FUNROMIN – Planning your holidays? Why not stay somewhere a little different?
    • www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com
17. PIN MONEY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS – Think you’re clever and know all the answers? Why not cash in on your skills?
    • www.mahalo.com/answers/tip_guidelines
18. DOWN DOWN UNDER – A UK specific search engine
    • www.searchii.com
19. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – A search engine specifically for finding “how to” tutorials 
    • www.tutsearch.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.