Yeah, It’s April Fools Day 2009 again. Time for some side splitting action…I’ll update this post as I uncover more during the day.
The Guardian says its swapping print for Twitter.
Youtube give us a new layout.
The Pirate Bay sells out to Warner.
Shearer to become Newcastle boss. -Edit. This looks like it aint an April Fool.
Gmail on AutoPilot
Jason Calacanis invests in Smellr Flickr for your nose.
Opera Face Gestures
Google’s CADIE – Google Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
Chrome in 3d.
Hotel’s Room’s on the Moon.
Miss World visits ‘beautiful’ Guantanamo Bay
Smashing Magazine’s Internet Explorer Update.
SitePoint’s Internet Reboot Day
Expedia offers flights to Mars.
Add some shine to your website.
Landmark JQuery plugin.
Reddit changes it’s layout.
Web Standards Project unveils the purpose of Conficker Worm.
Woopra Web Cam
Woot – 3 dollar item, 1 million shipping.
Top Gear to stream on the Web ad supported.
Web2.0 ireland’s 10 million euro funding
Facebook acquires Boards.ie
Wired claim they’ve got Twitter’s business plans
Yahoo idealogical search.
the end of Advertising at Marketing magazine.
ThinkGeek. Hilarious as always.
BBC Iplayer available on a Toaster.
Facebook in Trouble via E-Consultancy
Qualcomm opens the door on it’s top secret R&D.
Identi.ca acquires Twitter
Floating Amazon Cloud Environment
Digg’s algorithm cracked
Automatic mood detection from MSN
Get your Harry Potter E-books here
French Films banned from Lovefilm.
Joopal – Drupal and Joomla merger.
Alpine Legend on the Xbox Youtube Video.
A new name for MooTools.
Ban on Helvetica
Slideshare pull a whoopsie.
Save IE 6
posted:April 1, 2009 9:18 am
I love the one about iPhones and iPods getting heavier depending on how much music you have on them – http://bit.ly/203DWN
Charles Hog
posted:April 1, 2009 10:26 am
Lovely list. Here’s another one to add.
Psychic social networking site understands you and types messages on your behalf….
http://www.grahamjones.co.uk/blog/internet-psychology/psychologists-produce-psychic-social-network.html
Graham Jones
posted:April 1, 2009 11:49 am
Firebox have a bunch of entertaining new products which I strongly suspect will be one-day-only offers:
http://www.firebox.com/newsletter/firebox_newsletter_240.html?itc=157&src_t=nwt&src_id=240
Chris Wrigley
posted:April 2, 2009 1:48 am
lol I’m surprised Shearer isn’t a prank myself. As long as Blackburn is safe I’m happy!
Lee Munroe