April Fools’ Day Roundup
April 1st, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 2 Comments
April Fools’ Day jokes have a long tradition on the Internet, dating back to at least RFC1149, “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers” in 1990. Depending on your temperament, you may see these as either an amusing diversion, a great nuisance, or something in between. In any case, here are some of the not-news stories that WWD will not be covering today:
- Google & Virgin planning a Mars colony
- TechCrunch suing Facebook
- Real-world tagging from the Web Standards Project
- Dog-based “Mechanical Turk” work at Amazon
- Backdated messages in GMail.
Want more? Wikipedia keeps up with this stuff all day. Want less? Anil Dash sums up the curmudgeon viewpoint.
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Rajeev says: April 1st, 2008 8:35am
Net addicts and victims of violence and stalking through the net are going to get compensated by US.
http://tekno-world.blogspot.com
Michael Wolff says: April 1st, 2008 11:59pm
United Nations to Acquire Facebook
http://www.tomhcanderson.com/2008/03/31/united-nations-to-acquire-facebook/