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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 issue you can find out about foreign language tips for companies ready to expand with overseas exports, learn a new language by making new friends and get tasty marketing tips from some of the most successful kitchen table start-up companies.

You can also learn how to find an unregistered one-word domain name for almost any new Web site and discover a camera not much bigger than a postage stamp.

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 – May 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. SITES FOR EXPORT – Learn how to build multi-language websites
   • econsultancy.com/blog/5763-tips-for-planning-multi-language-websites
2. LINGOMATCH – Learn a language from a pen-pal
   • www.lingomatch.com
3. THE FOOD PROGRAMME – Lessons from entrepreneurial food start-ups
   • www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00rl4kg
   • www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnx3
4. ESCAPIST MARKETING – Blogging tips from the master escapologist
   • www.copyblogger.com/houdini-blogging/
5. PREPOSTEROUSLY EASY BLOGGING – Blogging via e-mail
   • posterous.com
6. CARDBOARD RECORD PLAYER – Cardboard viral marketing success
   • www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7CL0n5rR70
   • www.ggrp.com
7. SOCIALISING STAFF – Staff time on social networks quantified
   • www.scmagazineuk.com/facebook-and-youtube-dominate-workplace-traffic-and-bandwidth/article/168082
8. STAFF WATCH – Monitoring employee activity on social networking sites
   • www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/03/24/24readwriteweb-social-sentry-lets-employers-track-their-wo-19289.html
   • www.teneros.com/socialsentry
9. WEB SITE NAMES – Single word domain names
   • www.lastwordsleft.com
   • www.zen.co.uk/Hosting/DomainNames.aspx
10. SITEMAPS ILLUSTRATED – Sitemap specification adds images
    • googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/adding-images-to-your-sitemaps.html
11. FREE OCR – E-mail images for automatic OCR conversion
    • n1ne.net/ocr/index.php?s=4
12. INFINITE USB PLUG – Daisy chaining USB connectors
    • www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/infinite-usb-plug-is-a-big-idea-for-small-conveniences
13. EXPLAINING THE WIRES – Computer interconnects demystified
    • www.pcworld.com/article/193829/article.html
14. COMING NEXT FROM APPLE – New iPhone leaked
    • gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone
15. STILL SMALLER CAMERA – Postage stamp sized digital camera
    • gadgets.softpedia.com/news/The-Chobi-Cam-Is-Simply-Impressive-9009-01.html
    • www.geekstuff4u.com/chobi-mini-digital-camera.html
16. APP SNAP – Automatic artwork recognition
    • www.plinkart.com
    • www.google.com/mobile/goggles
17. SIDELINED BY GOOGLE – How do you get back into Google?
    • www.fireblog.com/hackers-steal-time-revenue-and-reputation-from-small-businesses-everyday-%e2%80%93-how-to-keep-it-from-happening-to-yours/#more-3183
18. SLOWER SITES GO LOWER – Google ranks slower websites lower
    • googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
19. MORE OR LESS – Twitter archive to be indexed by Google
    • latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/google-searches-twitter-archive-giving-public-access-to-billions-of-tweets.html
20. GODZILLA GOOGLE – Google remains unchallenged
    • www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/earticle/8333/
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH– A continuous search engine service
    • www.swamii.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.