It actually became tiring wading through yesterday's technology news, with geeks more keen than most to play their own slightly lame April Fool stunts. And because the jokes weren't particularly good, you started to question everything you were reading, just in case a tedious report about irregularities in a Norwegian committee's vote to approve the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (Office Open XML) as an ISO Standard was actually a joke sailing several metres over our heads.
Digg got in on the act very quickly; If you dugg an article, you were rewarded with a random character rather than a number. Google always make a half-hearted effort, and this year was no exception: they announced features allowing you to send email in the past, search web pages before they are created, while Google Books revealed some new scratch'n'sniff technology.
In other news,The Pirate Bay torrent site was forced to move its servers to the Sinai Desert; a web-based Time Machine called Dodo was launched; The Register announced that Jimmy Wales had resigned from Wikipedia, that a teacher's head had exploded due to mobile radiation, and that Comcast, an ISP known for its disapproving stance on file-sharing, had acquired BitTorrent for $53bn.
Engadget, bless them, discovered a load more to save me the bother of listing them. And then, amid all of that, they received a letter from T-Mobile requesting that they not use the colour magenta in the mobile section of their website. Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction...
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Torrent site EZTV put up a fake file of the next episode of 'Lost'.....sadly this has backfired on them horribly, with hundreds of users complaining that the, previously, fake-free site has now tarnished its reputation.
Posted by: Alex Botten | Wednesday, 02 April 2008 at 12:39 PM