The Internet Monthly: November 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 about getting 64GB on a postage stamp drive or in gold around your neck, driver-less cars from Google and a plan to quarantine infected PCs from Microsoft.

You can also learn about three extra site maps for your Web site to gain more traffic, how to read even the most obscure attached files and instantly publish text and Excel data on the Web.

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 – November 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. TELLING IMAGES – Criminals can track you by the photos you post online
   • icanstalku.com
   • www.icsi.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/publication.pl?ID=002932
2. MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA – Companies lax at monitoring social media
   • www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11450923
3. WIKIPEDIA WISDOM – Journalists caught out trusting Wikipedia
   • www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/wikipedia_norman_wisdom
4. HEALTH CHECK PC PLAN – Plans to ban infected PCs from the net
   • blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2010/10/05/the-need-for-global-collective-defense-on-the-internet.aspx
5. FILEMINX – Convert almost any file type online
   • www.fileminx.com
6. EXCEL TO WEB – Convert Excel data to web friendly code
   • shancarter.com/data_converter
7. INSTANTLY ON THE WEB – Web publishing at its simplest
   • ontext.info/en
8. IE AT FIFTEEN – Internet Explorer turns 15
   • www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-apps/2010/08/17/a-look-at-the-history-of-internet-explorer-40089837
9. IE9 – Internet Explorer version nine, but not for Windows XP
   • ie.microsoft.com/testdrive
   • www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/no_ie9_9_on_windows_xp
10. DRIVERLESS CARS FROM GOOGLE – Goggle developing driverless cars
    • googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html
    • www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html
11. GOLD STORAGE – Rugged, Gold edition 64GB flash drive on a key ring
    • www.supertalent.com/products/stt_usb_detail.php?type=Pico-C%2064GB
12. POSTAGE STAMP DRIVE – Miniature solid state SATA hard drives
    • www.sandisk.com/business-solutions/ssd/issd
13. POINTING THE WAY – Three sitemaps to enhance your website
    • www.videositemappro.com
    • wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-news-sitemap-generator
    • www.geositemapgenerator.com
14. PICTORIAL ANALYTICS – Goggle analytics with visual website overlays
    • analytics.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-in-page-analytics-visual.html
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8GW3M_2h0
15. REVEALING IMAGES – Search software to auto analyse image content
    • www.firstscience.com/home/news/breaking-news-all-topics/train-a-computer-to-classify-pictures-and-videos-based-on-the-elements-that-they-contain_93422.html
16. ATLAS OBSCURA – Find obscure places off the beaten track to visit
    • atlasobscura.com/globe
17. MULTIMAP MOVING TO BING – Multimap moves to Microsoft’s Bing
    • www.multimap.com
    • www.multimapismoving.co.uk
18. FINDING YOURSELF – Find all of your social media profiles
    • techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/greplin-ycombinator-personal-search
19. FACEBOOK BEFRIENDS BING – Bing and Facebook personalising search
    • www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-10/14/bing-friends-facebook
20. FUTURE SEARCH – Predictions of the future through social media
    • blog.recordedfuture.com
    • www.recordedfuture.com/about.html
21. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Providing answers, not just links
    • beta.swingly.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.