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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 podcast, you can find out how to secure your business pitch on Google Maps, find a good domain name from the ever decreasing supply and help search engines make the right choice between your duplicate Web site pages.

You can see how to check the way your Web site looks on mobile phones, add a brand icon to the web address of your website that browsers display and listen to music while you work by Twittering. Plus find out how to translate words into any of over 50 foreign languages and when you finally escape the office, learn how to make £300 in a weekend!

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 – March 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. PUTTING YOUR BUSINESS ON THE MAP – Make sure your customers can find you on Google maps
   • www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter
   • google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/02/calling-all-business-owners.html 
2. GOOGLE LATITUDE – Concerns on Google’s mobile phone tracking service 
   • www.mediapost.com/publications
   • gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-add-your-location-to-your.html 
3. PICTURE THIS – Information without search for mobile phone users
• www.mobvis.org/objectives.htm
4. WEB ADDRESS SHORTAGE – EU pushes for more IP addresses
   • www.itpro.co.uk/609926/government-warned-to-act-before-ip-addresses-run-out
5. NAME BRAIN – How to find a good domain name
• domaintyper.com
6. ONE URL FITS ALL – Don’t be penalised for your duplicate content
   • googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
   • ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fighting-duplication-adding-more-arrows-to-your-quiver
   • blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx 
7. MICRO BRANDING – Adding a Favicon to your website 
   • www.veryicon.com
   • www.quickfavicon.com
8. TWITTER MARKETING – Big brands on twitter
• twitter.com/guy1067 – The CarPhone Warehouse
• twitter.com/Alicia_at_Honda
• twitter.com/connectbyhertz
• twitter.com/richardatdell
• twitter.com/thehomedepot
• twitter.com/DunkinDonuts
• twitter.com/SouthwestAir
• twitter.com/MarriottIntl
• twitter.com/starbucks
• twitter.com/kodakCB
9. LISTEN WHILE YOU TWITTER – Listen to music on Twitter
   • www.twisten.fm
10. MUSIC TALK – Use your voice to find an album track
• www.midomi.com
11. BE £300 BETTER OFF NEXT WEEKEND – Make money at home
    • www.lovemoney.com/news/manage-your-finances/get-301-richer-this-weekend-2446.aspx
    • www.ibootsale.co.uk/main/index.php
12. WRITING COMPETITION – Writing for Dummies.com 
    • www.google.com/landing/knolfordummies
    • www.dummies.com/Section/id-352004.html?cid=db_promo1
13. GOOGLE PAYS BOOK AUTHORS – Google pays out to copyright holders 
    • www.googlebooksettlement.com
14. DICTIONARIES COMPENDIUM – Online dictionaries and translation resources
    • www.dicts.info
15. MOBILE ANSWERS – Wikipedia on your phone 
    • wapedia.mobi/en
16. FIT FOR MOBILES – Making websites work on your phone
    • mlvb.net
17. DOTMOBI – Check how your website will look on a mobile phone
    • ready.mobi/launch.jsp
18. BOSS LOOKS FOR BOTTOM LINE – Yahoo’s BOSS introduces fees
    • ysearchblog.com/2009/02/11/boss-update-open-monetization-pricing-structured-data-and-more/
19. PAD ORGANISER – Yahoo’s notebook service
    • ysearchblog.com/2009/02/04/search-pad-making-online-research-easier-2
20. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – A search engine using recommender technologies
    • www.worio.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.