Best all April fool pranks in one blog
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Google Nose? YouTube shutting down? Twitter charging for vowels? Not so fast, whipper snappers. April 1st has arrived, and for the Internet that means a slew of online pranks from some of the biggest names on the Internet.
1.No more red and white - Gmail is going all blue with its new product Gmail Blue
2.Kayak.com wants to book you a flight and a date with its new "dates" section. Could a weekend San Francisco lead to a shotgun wedding in Las Vegas?
3.Vimeo, the video-sharing site, has got the Internet down. It's changing its name to "Vimeow," with a new tagline that says: "Your cat videos belong here."
4.Not satisfied with the delivery person who brings your weekly order of General Tso's chicken? Seamless is letting users "upgrade" the attractiveness of its delivery people. There's even a surprise for those who live on the edge.
5.British newspapers are also getting into the spirit of April Fools' Day. The Mirror has added Instagram-like filters to its website, while the Guardian launched augmented-reality glasses that feature "anti-bigotry technology."
6.Toshiba touts a video game console called Shibashere, with the tagline: "Gaming so real, it's unreal." The console features hot games like "Contract Negotiations: Union Labor," "Pet the Dog" and "Trade Show: Vegas Edition."
7.Digg.com incorporates a classic gaming trick with a classic Internet meme. Visitors who punch in the Konami cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A), which was popularized in the video game "Contra," will get Rick Rolled --that is, Rick Astley's 1980s hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up" will play
8.According to The Loop, the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper will grace the one-cent coin, replacing the image of the Queen that has historically been featured on the penny. Other Canadians considered for the penny were Justin Bieber and Ryan Gosling
9.The Toronto Transit Commission, for instance, announced an innovative way to address a slew of customer complaints with one simple solution. Clipping your nails, indulging in fried chicken and blasting your music will all be considered acceptable behaviour on the TTC’s new ‘personal car’.
10 Nail clipping. It seems to really bother people, but I can clip my nails on the personal car?” TTC spokesperson Brad Ross asks in a video posted to YouTube. “Brad, it is the personal car,” Chief Customer Service Office Chris Uphold replies. “There is no point in even having a personal car if you can’t do your personal grooming in public.”The gag video shows the TTC execs sprawled in the personal car, only to later reveal the service is not available – not even until noon Monday.
Technology giants Google, Twitter and YouTube also “revealed” a number of new features. YouTube announced it would shut down on Monday to “finally pick a winner,” of its long-running contest. In a video uploaded to the site, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said the company’s founders had no idea they’d get such a great response in their quest to find the best video in the world.Users are encouraged to watch as many videos as possible before the contest comes to a close. With 70 hours of footage uploaded to YouTube every minute, it’s a lofty task.However, the site is not saying goodbye forever, according to 'competition director' Tim Liston.
The company tweeted out: "Trd th nw Twttr yt? Mr tm fr mr twts!", which translates to: Tried the new Twitter yet? More time for more tweets!”
13."We're doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we'll encourage a more efficient and 'dense' form of communication," Twitter said on its blog. "We also see an opportunity to diversify our revenue stream."
14.The company addressed the sticky 'Y' situation, ensuring users that the sometimes consonant, sometimes vowel will simply remain free. Ever-innovating Google announced a slew of new products on Monday. The Google Nose is marketed for those who don’t have the time to stop and smell the roses.
15.Now, with Google Nose Beta, the roses are just a click away," says Google product manager Jon Wooly in a YouTube video advertising the product. April Fool's Day also saw the evolution of Google’s Street View with the launch of "Treasure Mode." In a YouTube video, the Street View team offers users handy tips on how to decipher map that purportedly contains clues to a sea captain's long lost treasures.
Other April Fools pranks circulating online today include:
16.Headphones for cats by Sony
17 Bacon mouthwash by Scope
18.Reading glasses that allows users to see on liberal or conservative augmented realities by The Guardian
19.A glass-bottom plane by Virgin
20 $500 million for a new bike lane network in Toronto
21.Furry family service on West Jet – any type of animal that safely fits will be allowed on board
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