The Internet Monthly: July 2010

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 which newspapers are set to charge you for reading their content on-line, check the latest news on Twitter in newspaper format and read a new magazine on social media marketing.

You can also learn how to discover the technologies employed behind any Web site and get 14 Internet tips to cut your cost of living from the aptly named lovemoney.com.

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 – July 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. NEWS BEHIND THE WALL – Paying to read online newspapers
   • news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8720282.stm
2. END OF CONVERSATION – Instant messaging use dwindles
   • news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8698174.stm
3. READY TO RUMMBLE – Mobile recommendation system expands
   • www.rummble.com
4. TWITTER ZOOMS IN – Twitter location sharing feature
   • blog.twitter.com/2010/06/twitter-places-more-context-for-your.html
5. SHOPPING AROUND – Fourteen ways to save money online
   • www.lovemoney.com/news/ways-to-save/14-ways-the-internet-can-save-you-money-3620.aspx
6. CHEAP EATS – Buy short dated food products cheap online
   • www.approvedfood.co.uk
   • www.foodbargains.co.uk
7. E&OE – Oops, errors in last month’s podcast
8. OPEN GRAPH HOW-TO – Adding Facebook to your websites
   • developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
9. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING MAGAZINE – A new online magazine
   • www.smmmagazine.com
10. WHO NEEDS FLASH? – Apple shows HTML5 can replace Adobe’s Flash
    • www.apple.com/html5/
11. FIRST FUSION APU – AMD Combine graphics into new processors
    • www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-demonstrates-2010june02.aspx
12. WEB SITE INTERROGATOR – Find out what powers a website
    • w3techs.com/sites
13. MULTI MONITOR – Experience a multi-monitor setup on a single screen
    • dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
14. PIXEL PERFECT – Optimise your monitor for its best performance
    • screenperfect.aperturegames.com
15. TV OUTPUT GETS WEB INPUT – Google’s open source TV platform
    • www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/a-look-at-googles-tv-platform-demo/34811
16. ZEN ADDING FIBRE – Zen rolling out high speed fire optic broadband
    • www.zen.co.uk/about.aspx?page=11157
    • www.zen.co.uk/Broadband/zenbroadband.aspx?page=11109
17. TABLOID TWITTER – View Twitter like a newspaper
    • paper.li
18. WALL POSTERS – View fellow tweeters
    • www.thetweetwall.com
19. PAY PER TWEET – Google experiments with Twitter links in adverts
    • www.clickz.com/3640539
20. GOOGLE GEO-MARKETING – Users problems with Google taking over
    • www.mediapost.com/publications
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search the whole of the BBC
    • www.bbc.co.uk/search/help
    • www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/docs/BBC_Online_tlds_march2010.txt

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