Derek Hatchard writes on the theme of "improving experiences" which includes managing technology, user experiences, life hacking, and some business related stuff. Derek has a software development blog at ardentdev.com and a product review site at wellrated.com. He is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) at Radian6, a salesforce.com company. All views expressed are his alone (or those of any guest writers) and do not represent the views of Radian6 or salesforce.com.

The Google Fool

Is it just me or was the web especially rife with cheap April Fool’s Day jokes this year?  Not much was really head-scratchingly clever.

A few humorous items did come from Google:

Gmail Paper – receive printed copies of your email

Google TiSP – in-home wireless access via a fiber-optic cable flushed down the toilet

Matt Cutts Blog Hacked – Matt Cutts heads up the webspam team at Google.  This weekend his blog was supposedly hacked and he was mysteriously unable to get to it over the weekend.  :)   As of this post, it wasn’t confirmed by Matt publicly but the evidence suggests this is an elaborate April Fool’s prank.

Next year I think I’ll just hit Mark All as Read in my feed reader on April 1.


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  1. Rick Garcia says:

    I think I also saw something about “Google Writer” that apparently automatically writes content for you. Personally, I’m all in favor for that :)

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