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Translation Technology Can Open Your Eyes to a Global Social Web – The Steve Rubel Lifestream

As more of us around the world join the web, a lot content is going to start to be produced in non-English languages. This hasn’t been a factor for a lot of us, but I suspect it will as we begin to discover content-rich resources and individuals we want to interact with.

Case in point. Recently I started reading a German blog that covers technology. It has a lot rich content, like for example the latest build of a portable version of Google Chrome – but it’s all in German.

via Translation Technology Can Open Your Eyes to a Global Social Web – The Steve Rubel Lifestream.

Google Fast Flip

[Honey I froze the web] Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

via Features : Google Fast Flip – Google News Help.

Irish ISP Begins Blocking the Pirate Bay

Eircom confirms that beginning yesterday morning any of its “customers who attempt to access the Pirate Bay website from this time will be denied entry.”

Eircom customers were greeted to a rude reality yesterday morning as the ISP formally began blocking access to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs.

The move is a result of a settlement reached between it and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) who accused the ISP in court of not doing enough to combat copyright infringement by its subscribers.

via Irish ISP Begins Blocking the Pirate Bay.

Google Wave To Splash Down This Fall | jatiN mahindrA doT coM

There’s fresh word this afternoon about when (and to whom) Google Wave will become available. Schools and businesses that use Google Apps appear to be first in a line that should start moving this fall.

A post on the Official Google Enterprise Blog announced, “While the product, platform and protocols are still being developed, we’re extending access to some of the highly collaborative people and communities we hope to benefit in the future – businesses and schools. In turn, we look forward to learning from these Google Apps users, so we can continue to tweak and develop the product as we gain insight from their experiences.”

via Google Wave To Splash Down This Fall | jatiN mahindrA doT coM.

Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker

If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes browsing around the web lately, you’ve no doubt dealt with greedy webmasters assaulting their readers with awful ads and more—but Firefox makes it easy to take back control.

Blocking Unnecessarily Obnoxious Ads

Without question, obnoxious ads are out of control on the web these days—you can barely move your mouse across a page without ads moving around, popping up, taking over the screen or pretending to be a dialog window indicating impending doom if you don’t pay for a system scan NOW. These ads can be put in their place easily, using everybody’s favorite Adblock Plus extension. Lifehacker is, of course, an advertising-supported site—so we’d be grateful if you’d keep us on the whitelist—but it’ll do a charm for those flashing, pop-up-ing, overlaying, obtrusive ads all around the web.

via Use Firefox to Fix the Web’s Biggest Annoyances – Annoyances – Lifehacker.

Apple, Record Labels Diverge Over Next-Generation Full-Album Music Format | Epicenter | Wired.com

Apple and the major labels are squaring off for a major battle this fall with competing formats for delivering the latest innovation in digitial music. Full albums will come with a cornucopia of digital extras — at least that’s the way much of the tech press is setting the scene for a clash between Apple’s Project Cocktail and the major labels’ CMX format.

Both wrap songs, videos, images, lyrics, ringtones and other digital doodads into a comprehensive package that the industry hopes will bring back the long lost, profitable days of full album sales, which gave way to listeners buying single songs.

via Apple, Record Labels Diverge Over Next-Generation Full-Album Music Format | Epicenter | Wired.com.

Will Users Donate a Penny Per Email to Fight Spam, Yahoo Wonders | Epicenter | Wired.com

Yahoo’s researchers want you to voluntarily slap a one-cent stamp on your outgoing e-mails, with proceeds going to charity, in a bid to cut down on spam. Can doing good really do away with spam, which consumes 33 terawatt hours of electricity every year, not to mention way too much of our time?

The idea behind CentMail is that paying to send e-mail — even a single cent — differentiates a real e-mail from spam blasts, and thus, spam filters can be adjusted to let the stamped mail sail right through, according to a report from New Scientist. Users would get to choose which charity benefits from their penny missives, which the researchers hope will convince people to pay CentMail for something that’s currently free.

via Will Users Donate a Penny Per Email to Fight Spam, Yahoo Wonders | Epicenter | Wired.com.

Hostel Hero Books Hostels Via Your iPod | Lifehacker Australia

Hostels remain the cheapest way to score accommodation when you’re seeing the world (assuming security issues don’t drive you to a hotel). iPhone application Hostel Hero lets you search for and book hostels in 150 countries, and stores details of your bookings on the device itself.

via Hostel Hero Books Hostels Via Your iPod | Lifehacker Australia.

Epeus’ epigone: How Twitter works in theory

It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice – and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton’s Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I’ve learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it.

via Epeus’ epigone: How Twitter works in theory.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation

To make sharing content easier, Google just added the ability to translate documents into Google Docs

via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation.