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Thank God April Fools Day is over!
Techtree News Staff, Apr 02, 2008 2342 hrs ISTThe most annoying day ever had every Tom, Dick, and Harry pulling pranks at the drop of a hat!
Before you can say, "Thank God it's not April Fools Day," here's listing some of the gems (pranks) that the Internet churned out on that most annoying day yesterday.
The crown went to Google for pulling this one: Its home page offered a link to 'Virgle', a collaboration on an open-source Mars expedition between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and the prank-happy Web site. Posted on Google was: "Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: 'Project Virgle', the first permanent human colony on Mars." Meanwhile, Google Calendar irritated the hell out of users with a 'Free Wake Up Kit' -- designed to make them jump out of bed using progressively more annoying alerts to wake them up from slumber.
There wasn't any dearth of contenders either. CNet did a "TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids" wherein they reported that TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington intends shutting down the magazine to go 'online-only' with teen magazine and Web site 'Tiger Beat'. That in about a month's time, the site would be renamed 'CrunchKids'.
CenterNetworks reported Robert Scoble as leaving 'Fast Company' to start a video Web site around his passion -- ice cream.
ThinkGeek announced what they described as "a gadget with one heck of a bite", christening it "ZapCam - YouTube Tazer" claimed to pack a non-lethal 60,000V bite.
Amazon Blogspot did a "Friendfeed has competition" supposedly in the form of one 'PleaseDontBeMyFriend.com', described as a Web site strictly for people who're completely fed up with the whole world knowing everything about them.
This one's strictly for animal lovers: Amazon Web services blog came up with a 'DCI' which means 'Dog Computer Interface' starring Rufus_1, a Rhodesian Ridgeback owned by Martin Buhr (an employee and a busy one at that) and a valued part of the Developer Relations Team.
ThinkGene had a morbid looking "Scientists successfully create human-bear-pig chimera" while News.yahoo.com did a very conservative looking piece titled "Apple reveals Mac OS XI specs". The article read: "Apple CEO Steve Jobs broke his time-honored mold today, quietly announcing the framework for the much-anticipated Mac OS XI, an iTunes-based operating system that, as he said to a small audience of industry pundits -- really sings between system calls (lol)".
Meanwhile, ReadWriteWeb reported that mobile social networking company 'Frengo' has released a toolkit for development of open social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. And wonder whether this one had any takers after all: Infoworld's "Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on buyout price" which read: "After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo! today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft adding $2.6 billion to Redmond's original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan 31".
Bordering on the comic was cafepress with its 'imminent launch', namely "CafePress LoveMatch", described as the site's new dating service that will bring you love the same way "we've (they've) brought you T-shirts -- customized and on-demand!"
The crown went to Google for pulling this one: Its home page offered a link to 'Virgle', a collaboration on an open-source Mars expedition between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and the prank-happy Web site. Posted on Google was: "Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: 'Project Virgle', the first permanent human colony on Mars." Meanwhile, Google Calendar irritated the hell out of users with a 'Free Wake Up Kit' -- designed to make them jump out of bed using progressively more annoying alerts to wake them up from slumber.
There wasn't any dearth of contenders either. CNet did a "TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids" wherein they reported that TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington intends shutting down the magazine to go 'online-only' with teen magazine and Web site 'Tiger Beat'. That in about a month's time, the site would be renamed 'CrunchKids'.
CenterNetworks reported Robert Scoble as leaving 'Fast Company' to start a video Web site around his passion -- ice cream.
ThinkGeek announced what they described as "a gadget with one heck of a bite", christening it "ZapCam - YouTube Tazer" claimed to pack a non-lethal 60,000V bite.
Amazon Blogspot did a "Friendfeed has competition" supposedly in the form of one 'PleaseDontBeMyFriend.com', described as a Web site strictly for people who're completely fed up with the whole world knowing everything about them.
This one's strictly for animal lovers: Amazon Web services blog came up with a 'DCI' which means 'Dog Computer Interface' starring Rufus_1, a Rhodesian Ridgeback owned by Martin Buhr (an employee and a busy one at that) and a valued part of the Developer Relations Team.
ThinkGene had a morbid looking "Scientists successfully create human-bear-pig chimera" while News.yahoo.com did a very conservative looking piece titled "Apple reveals Mac OS XI specs". The article read: "Apple CEO Steve Jobs broke his time-honored mold today, quietly announcing the framework for the much-anticipated Mac OS XI, an iTunes-based operating system that, as he said to a small audience of industry pundits -- really sings between system calls (lol)".
Meanwhile, ReadWriteWeb reported that mobile social networking company 'Frengo' has released a toolkit for development of open social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. And wonder whether this one had any takers after all: Infoworld's "Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on buyout price" which read: "After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo! today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft adding $2.6 billion to Redmond's original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan 31".
Bordering on the comic was cafepress with its 'imminent launch', namely "CafePress LoveMatch", described as the site's new dating service that will bring you love the same way "we've (they've) brought you T-shirts -- customized and on-demand!"
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