While thinking of the clever April Fool’s post, I realized that everyone has already beaten this whole bit up before it even turned midnight in our part of the world. So instead of throwing any curve balls here, I figured I would list the jokes I’ve already come across.
- One great thing about being in Australia is you get everything before the rest of the world thanks to the International Date line. Darren Rowse over at Problogger.net announced their launch of PayPerTweet, a service that pays Twitter users for tweeting about products and services. He then issues a further explanation of the joke which is pretty interesting.
- Over at Techcrunch.com, I learned of a new phenomenon called RickRolling. Basically, you click a link you think is interesting, but it actually takes you to a youtube video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up“. Horrible song, but I think I liked it back in the day. Anyhow, Youtube is RickRolling everyone who clicks the Featured Videos from their home page.
- Of course, the reason I was at Techcrunch is because I noticed Arrington had a ridiculous claim of suing Facebook, so I had to read. He claims users were using his picture to advertise products and services through Facebook and he was suing them for $25 million. I guess knowing the whole April 1st bit I knew it was a joke with the headline, but when I started reading how he was claiming to be so important, it was tough to read. Like reading a joke of why the chicken crossed the road or a knock knock joke, too predictable.
- Google Australia announced the release of a new service that searches ‘tomorrow’s web, today’. It’s called gDay™ and the core technology that powers it is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).
**Updated List after day is over**
- BBC definitely has my vote for the most creative of the day. They released this video:
- CNET announced that Techcrunch acquired Tigerbeat and will rename it to CrunchKids.
- Google and Virgin partnered to create “Virgle”. This is called the ‘interplanetary Noah’s Ark’ where it will create a Mars expedition and eventual colonization of Mars.
Here are a list of sites that breakdown all of the internet pranks:
- Lifehacker Top 10 Harmless Geek Pranks
- SearchEngineLand has a recap of April Fool’s Day
- CNET Fool’s Day Lineup
***UPDATE ENDS***
This is just a few. I’ll post more tomorrow as April Fool’s hits this side of the world. Plus I think we might have our own fun to show.
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First email of the day included a rick roll link. Now the dang song is stuck in my head.
I hate April Fool’s Day.
Kate, you’d hate working here then. Ron and I saw to it that everyone’s keys were all out of place on their keyboards, masking tape over the “optical” part of everyone’s mouse, phones don’t work, desktops were inverted and maybe even a few more surprises before today is over.
(I used to like that song…..shh….don’t tell anyone.)
Have you seen what Google did on Gmail? They announced the release of “Custom Time”, which lets you roll back the time an email is sent-you know, so you can claim that you sent that email to your boss six hours before you actually did. The page even has made up testimonials that are hilarious-http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
As I just posted on my blog, next year I want to see April 1st become the official “Turn Off The Interweb” day as there were far too many weak attempts at humor. Tomorrow cannot come soon enough.
yeah… i have one.
i read it at this site: http://www.post-buzz.com
at first, i thought this is the latest offer from google but after i try to get the code, then i realize that i am so stupid… pity on me… wakakaka!
I’m with Derek - the number of blogs on my regular reading list who wasted my time yesterday with lame attempts at humor really ticked me off.
As one of my readers pointed out, when you’re working from home with little kids, internet time is borrowed time, often paid for not only by the bribes you’ve got to give your kids for 20 minutes of uninterrupted browsing, but all the guilt that comes with it.
Having that time prove completely wasted by reading “I’m quitting blogging” or “I just got fired” or “I’m coming out of the closet”… April Fools!… entries is infuriating.
Now, if I were at an office getting paid while dealing with such things — especially if it was my boss who’d pulled the pranks — well, that’d be a different matter.
We had some fun at the office with the day. Matt and I disabled a lot of computer parts and locked everyone out of the office the first thing in the morning while we were sitting inside laughing. The day continued with prank after prank, some spoiled, some successful.
I’ll try to put some sort of video to share. I just need to catch up on some work first.
Yeah…now that I’ve cleaned the Vaseline off of my car door handles and made sure that the vowels are in the proper places on everyone’s keyboards…it’s time to get back at it. Fun times, though.
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