Live blogging April Fools day 2008

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unclewilco 31 Mar 2008 at 2:41 pm

The first one I have seen on problogger.net

Ken Jones 31 Mar 2008 at 3:35 pm

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.

Leigh de Joya 31 Mar 2008 at 6:33 pm

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

Jason 31 Mar 2008 at 7:25 pm

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!

The Masked Millionaire 31 Mar 2008 at 8:43 pm

I found this April fools post this morning:

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

Daniel 31 Mar 2008 at 10:00 pm

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

Tim 01 Apr 2008 at 1:03 am

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

Tim 01 Apr 2008 at 1:04 am

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

Blues 4 Kali 01 Apr 2008 at 6:14 am

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

Tay - Super Blogging 01 Apr 2008 at 6:36 am

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

Alexandre 01 Apr 2008 at 8:32 am

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

Matt Jones 01 Apr 2008 at 10:12 am

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/

Jacob Cass 01 Apr 2008 at 10:26 am

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

Lyndon 01 Apr 2008 at 10:54 am

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

Stropp 01 Apr 2008 at 11:12 am

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/

Martaay 01 Apr 2008 at 11:56 am

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

Sucker 01 Apr 2008 at 12:45 pm

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/

Craig Dewe 01 Apr 2008 at 12:47 pm

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

Mine is: The Evil Genius Guide To Business

Ciaran 01 Apr 2008 at 1:04 pm

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

Nuno Andrade 01 Apr 2008 at 4:17 pm

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?”

logosamurai 01 Apr 2008 at 6:56 pm

Happy April Fool´s, EVERYONE!

Sucker 01 Apr 2008 at 7:20 pm

They don’t stop

March 2008 blog income report:

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

spostareduro 01 Apr 2008 at 10:42 pm

Happy April Fools Day

Learning SEO Basics on April Fools Day

http://learningseobasics.com/archives/357

Homebizseo.com 02 Apr 2008 at 7:24 am

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

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