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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.

The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast dedicated to the latest news and developments in the internet. The 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 – December 2008:

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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. CLIMATE FOR CHANGE – Why people change their internet provider
   • http://www.shape-the-future.com
2. NEWBIE NET GUIDE – Simple how to guides on the internet
   • http://www.abdn.ac.uk/webpack
3. TWITTER TIPS – Top tips on how to market your company via twitter
   • http://www.site-reference.com
   • http://twitter.com
4. SOCIAL MEDIA AT WORK – Should you be on Facebook at work?
   • http://www.webpronews.com/topnews
5. THE SOCIAL MEDIA ELECTION – How social media affected the US election
   • http://www.businessweek.com/technology
6. BRITISH SEARCH CHALLENGER – Grid  computing used to power searches
   • http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/ImenseiLexIR.aspx
7. ONLINE TV ON-DEMAND – New services to watch TV online
   • http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications
8. YOUTUBE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD – Hollywood blockbusters on YouTube
   • http://news.cnet.com
9. TEENAGE HACKERS – Would be hackers in the making
   • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7567889.stm
10. HOT 100 – The top 100 media technology companies
    • http://libraryhouse.net/publications/downloads/MediatechReportfinal.pdf
11. WINDOW SHOPPING – Amazon’s new graphical interface
    • http://www.windowshop.com
12. LINK COLLECTIVES – How to send multiple links simply
    • http://shrink2one.com
13. ACAPELLA SEARCH FOR APPLE – Apple revamping its search for Safari
    • http://www.techcrunch.com/2008
14. ASK GOOGLE – Have your say at Google
    • http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=8d51&t=9839
    • http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=c9
15. VOTE ON GOOGLE – Is Google evil? You decide
    • http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008
16. PLUG-IN SEMANTIC SEARCH – Enhance your search
    • http://www.semantifind.com
    • http://www.gogimon.com
    • http://www.tigerlogic.com
17. GOOGLE OCR – Google indexes scanned documents
    • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008
    • http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
18. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Mobile search
    • http://taptu.com
    • http://www.taptu.com/blog

Acknowledgements

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