Sandor Panton in association with the Gleaner Online guides you through what's new, cool and interesting on the Internet, from Jamaica to the wider Caribbean and the rest of the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/ Believe it or not, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has an entire section of its website that is dedicated to dancehall music, and more specifically, the dancehall music scene in Britain and Jamaica. What is hot on BBC 1xtra right now are audio, video and pictures from the recent U.K. Cup Clash in which Mighty Crown sound system from Japan emerged victorious.

http://www.caribbeancricket.com ­ Fans of Windies cricket are no doubt disappointed with their team's test series loss to South Africa. If you are one of the many and feel like venting, join others from all over the Caribbean on the message boards at CaribbeanCricket.Com.

Dubbing itself the 'Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket', CaribbeanCricket.Com has become one of the leading online sources of West Indies cricket news and information.

DID YOU KNOW?

The very first domain name was registered way back in 1985. Between March 1985 and November 1987, only 100 domain names were registered.

Compare that to an estimated 51 million .Com, .Net, .Info, .Org, .Us and .Biz domain names which are listed as currently active. Interestingly, JAMAICA.COM was not registered until 1994, not by the Jamaican Government, but by a Canadian-based travel company.

IT'S A GOOGLE WORLD

For many years now, the 'anti-monopoly' spotlight has been on the software giant Microsoft.

Meanwhile, the world's most popular search engine ­ Google ­ has quietly become a dominating force on the Internet itself. Not only are website owners overwhelmingly dependent on Google as a source of visitors (because the majority of Internet searches are done using Google), but Google has also gone about creating added features and utilities that may eventually make it the ultimate online destination.

Among the most recent additions to the Google arsenal are

Search history ­ http://www.google.com/searchhistory/ ­ automatically keeps track of all the Google searches that you have done in the past (basically saving your search behaviour)

Google maps ­ http://maps.google.com/ ­ Especially for North American users who can use it to view maps (including satellite maps), get driving directions, and search for local businesses and services.

Google video ­ http://video.google.com/ ­ This feature is best explained with an example. Let us say you wanted to find all the recent TV programmes in which the word 'Jamaica' was mentioned, do it with Google's video search.

Desktop search ­ http://desktop.google.com/ ­ Your computer's own personalised Google search, this tool allows you to search within the files on your computer.

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