The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 10 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 learn about apps in your phone collecting more data than Google, how you can watch all the watchers who follow you online and why you should take care on Facebook to avoid mild embarrassment and potentially much worse.

You can also find out about a very different search engine for finding website source code snippets, competitor backlinks and much more.

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.

The Internet Monthly – December 2013:

Or, download: podcast_dec13.mp3 [13' 05'', 6.0MB]

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:

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2. SAFETY IN NUMBERS – The possible pit-falls of crowdfunding websites
   
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   • www.investorschronicle.co.uk/2013/11/14/comment/chronic-investor-blog/avoid-the-sting-in-crowdfunding-s-tail-MGSdsjALXwlB5knUprnpoL/article.html
     
   
   
   
3. A REAL TIME PHONE TRACKING FLURRY – Mobile apps tracking your every move
   
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   • www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/10/30/meet-the-company-that-tracks-more-phones-than-google-or-facebook
     
   
   
   
4. WATCHER WATCHING – Find out who’s watching your online habits
   
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   • www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam
     
   
   
   
5. FACEBOOK FOLLY – Beware of the trouble you can get yourself in with Facebook
   
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   • www.bestcomputerscienceschools.net/facebook-privacy
     
   
   
   
6. TWO FOR THE PRICE – Tips on engaging with new and existing customers
   
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   • www.cbronline.com/news/social/o2-and-twitter-announce-official-partnership-to-support-uk-small-businesses
     
   
   
   
7. DOMAINS DOING GOOD THINGS – Use your unused domain names to help charities
   
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   • www.domains4good.org/how
     
   
   
   
8. DIY FONTS – Design your own font online for free
   
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   • fontstruct.com
     
   • fontstruct.com/gallery
     
   
   
   
9. FILM FONTS – Can you guess which font came from which film?
   
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   • www.empireonline.com/features/posterletters
     
   
   
   
10. GOOGLE VOICE SEARCH – Google’s voice search aims to rival Apple’s Siri
    
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    • www.smallholder.co.uk/news/10789220.Google_launches_voice_search_app
      
    • www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZUSPecPRk
      
    
    
    
11. GOOGLE OUTDOORS – Google kiosks to help visitors to London
    
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    • www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1219734/google-brings-search-outdoors-london-pilot
      
    
    
    
12. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search for the back-end code behind websites
    
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    • nerdydata.com
      
    • search.nerdydata.com
      
    • www.stateofdigital.com/nerdydata-seo-tool-searchengine-code
      
    
    
    

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