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April 01, 2011
What We're Reading, April Fool's Edition
With April Fool's Day comes the myriad of jokes from the social mediasphere - some that were pretty good "gotchas" and others that I could tell were #aprilfools fodder a mile away. For today's edition of What We're Reading, I thought I'd share a few of those that tickled our funny bone:
- Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt leaves a not-very-happy voice mail after TechCrunch reporter Michael Arrington wrote a joking post about Google Places that mentioned Rosenblatt's yacht, The Adsense.
- Speaking of Google, Gmail introduces a new product called Gmail Motion for writing emails using body motion. Actually, that would be very cool if it were real - dontcha think?
- From the Oops...April Fools?" Department: Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes accidentally (or "accidentally-for real"?) sends a "Confidential and Internal" email out to Hootsuite users that was meant for board members and investors. The email, which was about changing business models to something called "Happy Owls", was actually in of itself an April Fool's joke, but it turns out it wasn't meant to be sent out to customers (or...was it?)
- Danny Brown posted on his blog that Twitter was banning hashtags because of its "connotation with drug use."
- LinkedIn suggested fictional characters and dead famous people as people you may know (like The Hatter and Groucho Marx). Cute.
What were your favorite April Fool's jokes played out online?
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