I always enjoy a good prank on April Fools' Day, although rarely pull any myself for fear of insulting someone or getting myself into trouble. Reflecting upon a few of yesterday's jokes, I thought I'd share some of my favorite April Fools' Day jokes from the web.
1. Google. Each year Google does its best to make us laugh, and usually it works. Yesterday's introduction of Autopilot and CADIE was one of my all time favorites (read more about the round-the-world google hoaxes, including using thousands of pigeons to collect google maps data). Other google favorites include pigeon rank and google gulp.
2. Sitepoint let everyone know that the Internet was going to reboot - hold on to your hats!
3. Familylink used its facebook app, we're related, to let millions of users know that Barack Obama had confirmed them as a fourth cousin.
4. ThinkGeek makes up stuff, SqueezeBacon, Unicorn Chaser, and even a USB pet rock.
5. Woot offered a bag of random crap for the unbeatably low shipping price of 1 million dollars.
6. Youtube's videos were upside down (although this sort of counts as google).
7. Reddit made itself look like digg, calling the redesign a "long overdue update"
8. The Guardian moves completely to a twitter platform.
9. Pirate Bay is purchased by Warner Bros.
10. UCSD students who were rejected from college get a "congratulations" email (oh wait, that wasn't an april fools' day joke, but just an unfortunate accident).
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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