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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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