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April Fool's Shenanigans

by Jeff 4/1/2008 2:15:00 PM

I admit...the idea of pulling a light hearted April Fool's Day prank crossed my mind. Realizing that countless other bloggers might do the same caused me to quickly dismiss the idea. Turns out that I made the right call. So instead of humoring you with my own prank, here is a rundown of some that I noticed today. Most of them were very light hearted and amusing. Well....all of them but John Chow's that is. Is it me, or is this not surprising?

Google can always be counted on every year to offer a good April Fool's Day joke. This year two that caught my eye were the Google Wake Up Kit and the Google Custom Time. I am in agreement with TechCrunch on this one - not that funny. Come on Google...we expect better from you.
Darren pulled a nice one over at ProBlogger. He announced a new Pay Per Tweet service that that would pay users to Tweet about products and services. With hundreds of comments on his blog and countless links from other blogs, I think its fair to say that he got the best of everyone on this one. I still have my money on someone actually attempting this as a real venture.
Zac Johnson announced his own affiliate program that paid users $0.75 for each referral to his website. Is that all we are worth to you Zack? A mere 75 cents? Oh wait...that's per click. What a deal!
I guess his John Chow Cola post wasn't funny enough, because John then decided to dupe everyone into some Free PPC Secrets from UberAffiliate. Don't fall for this one folks unless you think destructive Rick Rolling is entertaining. Seriously, you'll have to kill your browser. What a dick.

Next year I will be prepared. Tomorrow I am going to start thinking of the April Fool's Day Hoax to top all April Fool's Day Hoaxes. Just as soon as I come up with that hilarious Halloween costume, finish my Christmas shopping early, pay may taxes ahead of time, and everything else I said I was going to do next year.

What about you guys? See anything else funny worth mentioning?

Happy April Fool's Day
Jeff

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Comments

4/2/2008 3:33:22 AM

The Winning The Web contest got into a bit of April Fooling around today. Gyutae Park decided to finish his Craziest Internet Marketing Contest off with a BANG!

He's added (allegedly) a spankin' new 2008 Hummer H2 to the prize pool. A bit far fetched for a blogging contest, but an obvious April Fool's (not-so-funny) Joke.

Bryan

4/2/2008 5:03:43 AM

Shoemoney released a mildly amusing video too in which he claimed to share the secret to making $1k a day but you got blasted with static constantly whenever he was supposedly saying anything of importance.

Tom Beaton

4/2/2008 7:00:03 PM

You must have missed the colonize Mars post by Google. They had a plan to colonize Mars in the next 100 years. Terraforming, nuclear power and real estate boon.

kexbrown

4/2/2008 8:07:34 PM

I definitely missed that one. Sounds like Google had a good one after all. Thanks Ken!

Here a link to the press release:
www.google.com/press/pressrel/20080401_virgle.html

Interestingly, it looks like they've got the planet all mapped out!
http://www.google.com/mars/

Jeff

4/3/2008 10:12:25 PM

I fell for the John Chow joke at work. As the video was going round and round and the sound was coming out of my headphones, I decided to kill the headphones. I pulled the jack out the back thinking it would stop and the music was 10 times as loud coming from the computer.

John Chow will never get another hit from my site.

Eric P. Martin

4/4/2008 12:18:51 PM

I am pretty tired of looking at pictures of food myself.

Jeff