Playing the April Fool’s day game
Posted on 04.02.09 by Alexandre Maron @ 04:38

Didn’t you look for jokes yesterday? I love April Fool’s Day. I just browse everywhere looking for practical jokes in media outlets that are, most of the time, serious.

The Guardian (that dropped the paper in favor of turning into a Tweetercentric site) made a list of some cons spotted through the internet.

And I have my personal list:

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Eye-Camera, from Kodak

Google launches Cadie, an intelligent system that will help them in the near future in keeping the company as the most innovative. Well, there’s a learning curve

Amazon announces the REAL cloud computing. They are taking computer up-up-and awayyy!!

CrunchGear became part of a line of cereals (crunch, got it?) of General Mills!!

Kodak shows its pretty Eye-Camera. Wow!! What a gadget!

Gmail shows it’s new amazing functionality: auto-pilot. The, hum, intelligent system answers your messages for you! As an example, they show how it would answer the classic nigerian prince spam.

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And there is obviously a lot more around. Life is playground.

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