Live blogging April Fools day 2008

The first one I have seen on problogger.net

Looks like Darren Rowse got the ball rolling with this one as soon as the clock struck twelve in Australia.
Problogger Launches PayPerTweet
He’s already got loads of comments, ranging from the incredulous, to the dismissive, through to a number of people who’re disgusted that he would dare offer a service like this on their beloved Twitter, and quite a few who spotted the joke and called him on it straight away.
Just waiting to see what Shoemoney has lined up for this year.

Google has released its Google April Fool’s Search Engine found at http://www.googleaprilfools.com

Hopefully my software launch today doesn’t get lost in April Fools pranks

P.S. Check out http://www.blogcommentator.com/order2.php?blogstorm and your readers can use coupon code “APRFOOLS” for a 50% discount!

I found this April fools post this morning:

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/01/problogger-launches-paypertweet/

Tim Ferris of the Four Hour Workweek posted this prank claiming that he had been outsourcing all his blog writing for the last year.

Google Australia has released a search engine which predicts the future.

Link to Google Australia’s April Fools joke: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

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Here’s another one: http://www.bookofmoron.com/breaking-news-sex-scandal-derails-campaign-train

What about John Chow’s new John Chow Cola for bloggers, where he teamed up with Coca Cola? Haha.

An epistemology professor complains about Gmail’s Custom Time:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

I made one for 2 of my airsoft blogs that “airsoft has been banned totally in UK and Europe”. They have been written about in a few airsoft forums.

Links to the posts:
http://cheapassairsoftguns.com/airsoft-guns-to-be-totally-banned-across-uk-and-europe/

http://airsoftstoreonline.com/airsoft-to-be-banned-in-europe-and-uk/

Wonder if you can figure out what mine is? Check link in name.

YouTube has pulled a good one this year - go to youtube.com and click on any of the featured videos

It’s not in the make money online niche, but I put up an April Fools post in the other MMO niche (Massively Multiplayer Online games).

http://stroppsworld.com/2008/04/01/blizzard-buys-cryptic-star-trek-licence-confirmed/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml thought this one was quite good!

Guess I’m late to the party!

I posted one this morning:
http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2008/04/01/seo-firm-recommendation/

So far my two faves are from Tim Ferriss and Blog Commentator because they are right on the borderline of believable:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/31/the-grand-illusion-the-real-tim-ferriss-speaks/
http://www.blogcommentator.com/

Thanks for the list Patrick, I was looking for other examples!

Mine is: The Evil Genius Guide To Business

I liked this one:
http://www.wheretoadvertise.co.uk/website/2008/04/01/digg-to-buy-microsoft-as-shares-fall/

[...] Next little investment was $168K for Daily Blog Tips and the Daily Network. I’ve known the owner Daniel for ages and thought it would be a cool addition to my network (full story over on DBT and Blog Storm). [...]

Prime Furniture Source, a retailer of modern furniture, has gone completely green.

Here is an excerpt from their press release:

“Miami, April 1, 2008 — Like most of you, we at Prime Furniture Source have been hearing a lot about this new “going green” phenomenon. At first we didn’t know what to make of it, but if it’s good enough for Al Gore, then who are we to argue?”

Happy April Fool´s, EVERYONE!

They don’t stop

March 2008 blog income report:

http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2008/04/01/march-2008-blog-income-report/

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Happy April Fools Day

Learning SEO Basics on April Fools Day

http://learningseobasics.com/archives/357

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Great list, I especially like the living on Mars one.

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