Mar 31 2008

April Fools 2008 Around The Net

by David Jeffries under Internet at 9:51 pm


Well, it's April fools time again. Most of these are pretty funny, some are lame - but anyways here is my list of the main April fools jokes from around the internet:

  • YouTube - All front page videos redirecting to rickrolls.
  • TechCrunch - Suing Facebook for $25 Million
  • CenterNetworks - Robert Scoble starts Ice Cream Library TV
  • JohnChow - John gets his own soft drink. "The official blogger drink"
  • Google Austrailia - Searching internet content before it is created, or "future search" (I found this one to be *too* unbelievable)
  • Gmail - Gmail custom time. Send emails to the past. (Google LOVES time-based jokes)
  • Google & Virgin - A collaborative effort to establish a human colony on Mars.
  • The Pirate Bay - Copyright law changes force servers to be moved to the Egyptian desert
  • ProBlogger - A pay-per-twitter service.
  • CollegeHumor - Purchased by a MySpace teens parents, redirects to "her" profile.
  • ShoeMoney - Make 1,000.00 in 1 hour
  • Aviary - Photo editing time machine - magically transform photos to the past or future! (YouTube vid)

I think the TechCrunch one had me going for the longest, it was pretty well done. Aviary also gets mad props for putting so much time into a pretty funny YouTube video, plus almost every major blogging outlet wrote about it (even though they all knew it was a joke, it definitely got major free press).

If you know of anymore that aren't on this list let me know in the comments.

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6 Comments »

Comment by Penguins
2008-04-02 01:42:02

You missed possibly the best one, from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_mp

 
Comment by David Jeffries
2008-04-02 14:00:52

It tells me that “this programme is only available to play in the UK” :(

 
Comment by Max
2008-04-02 15:03:45

Said video of BBC april fool’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4

 
Comment by David Jeffries
2008-04-02 15:11:28

Wow, that’s hilarious!

 
Comment by Chris
2008-04-02 15:20:59

For the penguins vid on the beeb, try the following url:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100/7324112.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1

- this one is available internationally…

 
Comment by cloud9ine
2008-05-21 18:08:08

maybe someone you know can spell austrailia right

 
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